U+AC09 "갉" Hangul Syllable Galg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
갉
U+AC09 "갉" Hangul Syllable Galg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant cluster "ㄺ" (lg). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final consonants. The character "갉" is used in written Korean to denote the sound "galg" and appears in vocabulary where such a syllable naturally occurs, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday modern Korean text compared to more frequent syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC09 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Galg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "가" U+AC00 Hangul Syllable Ga "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac09 |