U+AEEF "껯" Hangul Syllable Ggec Unicode Character
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 |