U+AEDC "껜" Hangul Syllable Ggen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껜
U+AEDC "껜" Hangul Syllable Ggen is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, specifically formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssang giyeok, representing a tensed 'kk' sound), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e, pronounced like the 'e' in "bed"), and the final consonant "ㄴ" (nieun, representing an 'n' sound). This single code point represents the entire syllable "Ggen" (pronounced approximately "kken") and is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to simplify text processing by providing a distinct code for each of the over 11,000 possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEDC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "께" U+AED8 Hangul Syllable Gge "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEDC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaedc |