U+AEE5 "껥" Hangul Syllable Ggelt Unicode Character
U+AEE5 "껥" Hangul Syllable Ggelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense, doubled version of the basic "g" sound), the vowel "e" (ㅔ), and the final consonant "lt" (ㄹㅌ). This specific syllable does not commonly occur in everyday Standard Korean vocabulary, but it exists as a computationally valid and displayable character within the Unicode Standard's extensive Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations formed from the Korean alphabet's jamo components. Its inclusion ensures that any theoretically possible Korean syllable can be represented and processed in digital text, supporting the complete orthographic system of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEE5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaee5 |