U+AEF0 "껰" Hangul Syllable Ggek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껰
U+AEF0 "껰" Hangul Syllable Ggek is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the sound "ggek," formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense or double "g/k"), the vowel "ㅔ" (a short "e" sound), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (a "k" or "g" sound). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF) in the Unicode standard, which contains over 11,000 precomposed Modern Korean syllables arranged in phonetic order according to the South Korean collation sequence. This specific syllable is used in the Korean language to write words that include the tense consonant cluster, such as in onomatopoeia or descriptive terms, and it is not a fundamental letter but a complete lexical unit within the alphabetically organized syllable set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEF0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEF0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEF0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaef0 |