U+AC16 "갖" Hangul Syllable Gaj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
갖
U+AC16 "갖" Hangul Syllable Gaj is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "gaj," formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, it was encoded in Unicode version 2.0 alongside thousands of other precomposed syllabic characters to facilitate the digital representation of Korean text. The syllable carries no inherent meaning on its own but is used as a building block in Korean words, such as in "갖추다" (gatchuda, meaning "to prepare" or "to equip"), where it serves as the root form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC16 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac16 |