U+AEE9 "껩" Hangul Syllable Ggeb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껩
U+AEE9 "껩" Hangul Syllable Ggeb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic compound "ggeb," formed by the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double aspirated "g" sound), the vowel "ㅔ" (a mid-front vowel similar to "e" in bed), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (a bilabial stop "b" sound that terminates the syllable). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded as a single codepoint to facilitate text processing and display, reflecting the block’s design that assigns distinct codes to each of the 11,172 possible syllable combinations in standard North and South Korean orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEE9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaee9 |