U+AEF7 "껷" Hangul Syllable Ggyeogs Unicode Character
U+AEF7 "껷" Hangul Syllable Ggyeogs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense, double ㄱ sound), the medial vowel "yeo" (ㅕ), and the final consonant "gs" (a double final ㄳ). Its Unicode code point falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes over 11,000 possible syllables by algorithmically combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants according to the Korean orthographic order. As a syllable that rarely appears in common modern Korean vocabulary, "껷" primarily serves as a typographic and encoding reference within digital text systems, ensuring complete coverage of all theoretically valid Hangul syllables for historical, linguistic, or specialized usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEF7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeogs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEF7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEF7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaef7 |