U+AEEF "껯" Hangul Syllable Ggec Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AEEF "껯" Hangul Syllable Ggec is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggec" as a single block character. It belongs to the Unicode block for Hangul Syllables, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants according to the standard order of the Korean alphabet. Specifically, this syllable is formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ᆬ" (jieut and bieup), though the precise pronunciation in modern Korean may be more accurately rendered as something close to "kkek" due to phonetic changes. As a precomposed form, it exists to simplify text processing and display, allowing the entire syllable to be represented by a single codepoint rather than as a sequence of individual jamo characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+AEEF
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggec
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 껯
HTML Hex Encoding 껯
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBB 0xAF
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAEEF
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AEEF
C/C++/Java Escape \uaeef

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