U+AEE7 "껧" Hangul Syllable Ggelh Unicode Character
U+AEE7 "껧" Hangul Syllable Ggelh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "ggelh" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssang-giyeok), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (rieul-hieut). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables used to write the Korean language. This particular syllable, like others in the block, was added to Unicode to facilitate efficient text processing and display, allowing Korean text to be encoded as single character codes instead of requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo components. It is used primarily in contexts where Korean text is rendered, though it may appear rarely in modern vocabulary compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEE7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggelh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEE7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEE7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaee7 |