U+AEE5 "껥" Hangul Syllable Ggelt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter