U+AEF9 "껹" Hangul Syllable Ggyeonj Unicode Character
U+AEF9 "껹" Hangul Syllable Ggyeonj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the sound "ggyeonj," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double consonant pronounced like a strong 'g' or 'kk'), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo, similar to the 'yo' in "yonder" but shorter), and the final consonant "ㄴㅈ" (nj, a compound coda blending an 'n' and a 'j' sound). As a valid, standardized character in the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), it is encoded for digital text to ensure accurate representation and rendering of Korean words that include this specific phonetic combination, though it appears relatively infrequently in everyday vocabulary compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEF9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeonj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaef9 |