U+AEF5 "껵" Hangul Syllable Ggyeog Unicode Character
U+AEF5 "껵" Hangul Syllable Ggyeog is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the sound "ggyeog" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations formed from Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. This specific syllable is built from the initial letter ᄁ (ssanggiyeok, a double consonant representing a tensed "g" sound), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ᄀ (giyeok, pronounced as "k" in syllable-final position). When reading Korean text, this character occupies a single code point but is structurally equivalent to its individual jamo components, allowing for efficient text processing and display in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEF5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "껴" U+AEF4 Hangul Syllable Ggyeo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaef5 |