U+AEF4 "껴" Hangul Syllable Ggyeo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껴
U+AEF4 "껴" Hangul Syllable Ggyeo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggyeo." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄁ (ssanggiyeok, a doubled "g" sound) with the medial vowel ᅧ (yeo), and it includes no final consonant. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that were created to facilitate digital text processing by providing a single codepoint for each possible combination of initial consonant, vowel, and optional final consonant. As part of the Korean script standard, "껴" is used in the Korean language primarily within native or Sino-Korean vocabulary to denote the specified syllable in written text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEF4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok "ᅧ" U+1167 Hangul Jungseong Yeo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaef4 |