U+AEFC "껼" Hangul Syllable Ggyeol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
껼
U+AEFC "껼" Hangul Syllable Ggyeol is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant ᄁ (a tense or fortis 'gg' sound), the medial vowel ᅧ (yeo), and the final consonant ᆵ (l). This specific syllable does not represent a commonly used standalone word in contemporary Korean but exists as part of the complete set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables encoded in Unicode for digital text processing. As a precomposed form, it ensures efficient rendering and compatibility across systems, preserving the full phonetic and orthographic inventory of Hangul, though its practical usage is rare outside of specialized linguistic or typographic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEFC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaefc |