U+AEE6 "껦" Hangul Syllable Ggelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껦
U+AEE6 "껦" Hangul Syllable Ggelp is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic value of "ggelp," which combines the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed 'g' sound), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (pronounced 'eh'), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (pronounced as a double consonant 'lp'). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block and was encoded in Unicode 2.0 to support Korean text, enabling the precise representation of composite syllables formed from the basic jamo (alphabet characters) of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEE6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEE6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaee6 |