U+AEFD "껽" Hangul Syllable Ggyeolg Unicode Character
U+AEFD "껽" Hangul Syllable Ggyeolg is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing a specific phonetic combination in the Korean writing system, consisting of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, doubled k or g sound), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (a diphthong pronounced like "yuh" or "yeo"), and the final consonant cluster "ㄺ" (the velar ones "lg" or "lk") to create the complex syllable "ggyeolg." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables for efficient digital text representation, and it is categorized under a South Korean (KS X 1001) mapping standard. As a syllable used in modern Korean, "껽" is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary, but it demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul, where characters are formed by logically arranging jamo (letters) into a single block, covering all possible sound combinations through Unicode's comprehensive encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AEFD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeolg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 껽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 껽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBB 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAEFD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AEFD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaefd |