U+AC18 "갘" Hangul Syllable Gak Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
갘
U+AC18 "갘" Hangul Syllable Gak is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "gak," formed from the initial consonant ㄱ (g), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㄱ (k). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters, and it is encoded as a single codepoint for efficient text processing and display. As a valid and standard syllable, "갘" may appear in Korean texts and dictionaries, though it is less common in everyday vocabulary compared to more frequently used syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC18 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC18 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac18 |