U+AC20 "갠" Hangul Syllable Gaen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC20 "갠" Hangul Syllable Gaen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "gaen." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g) with the vowel "ㅐ" (ae) and the final consonant "ㄴ" (n), and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. This character is used in the Korean language for writing words that contain the syllable "gaen," such as in common terms like "갠다" (to clear up, as in weather), and it is typically displayed in a single cell in digital text, ensuring compact and accurate representation of Korean writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC20
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gaen
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
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 갠
HTML Hex Encoding 갠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB0 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC20
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC20
C/C++/Java Escape \uac20

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