U+AEF8 "껸" Hangul Syllable Ggyeon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껸
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 |