U+AC23 "갣" Hangul Syllable Gaed Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC23 "갣" Hangul Syllable Gaed is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (d). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, a large range of Unicode that encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters according to the standard syllabic structure, and its pronunciation corresponds to the sound "gaed" as in the Korean word for a dog or dog-related terms. This character is part of the standard repertoire used for writing Korean in digital text, ensuring consistent representation across devices and platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC23
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gaed
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
"ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 갣
HTML Hex Encoding 갣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB0 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC23
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC23
C/C++/Java Escape \uac23

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