U+AEF8 "껸" Hangul Syllable Ggyeon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AEF8 "껸" Hangul Syllable Ggyeon is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "ggyeon," which is pronounced with a tensed or fortis initial consonant. It is formed by the combination of the initial consonant ᄁ (ssanggiyeok), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). This syllable appears in standard Hangul text as part of the Unicode block Hangul Syllables, which was designed to encode all possible combinations of modern Korean phonemes. While it is less common than many other syllables, it is valid in the Korean writing system and may be encountered in specific words or technical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+AEF8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyeon
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
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 껸
HTML Hex Encoding 껸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBB 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAEF8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AEF8
C/C++/Java Escape \uaef8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter