U+AC15 "강" Hangul Syllable Gang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
강
U+AC15 "강" Hangul Syllable Gang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "gang." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㄱ (g/k) with the vowel ㅏ (a) and the final consonant ㅇ (ng), resulting in a single, indivisible code point for efficient text processing. This character is widely used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in common words like 강 (river), 강아지 (puppy), and 강남 (Gangnam), and it is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, which includes all 11,172 possible syllables of the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC15 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 강 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 강 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac15 |