U+AEE8 "껨" Hangul Syllable Ggem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껨
U+AEE8 "껨" Hangul Syllable Ggem is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄲ” (a tensed ‘g’ or ‘kk’ sound), the medial vowel “ㅔ” (a short ‘e’ sound), and the final consonant “ㅁ” (an ‘m’ sound). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllable characters that allow for the efficient encoding of Korean text. While this specific syllable may not be common in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and phonetic nature of Hangul, where each syllable block is formed by combining individual jamo letters into a single visual unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEE8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaee8 |