U+AC1E "갞" Hangul Syllable Gaegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC1E "갞" Hangul Syllable Gaegg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "gaegg." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant cluster "ㄲ" (kk), which together create a single, distinct syllable block typical of Hangul orthography. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient digital text processing, and as a precomposed form, it allows for straightforward representation without requiring separate combining characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC1E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gaegg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "개" U+AC1C Hangul Syllable Gae
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 갞
HTML Hex Encoding 갞
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB0 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC1E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC1E
C/C++/Java Escape \uac1e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter