U+AC24 "갤" Hangul Syllable Gael Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC24 "갤" Hangul Syllable Gael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "gael" or "gel" in the South Korean standard romanization. It is formed from the combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g/k), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l), which together create a single, self-contained character block. This syllable, like all Hangul glyphs, follows the phonetic logic of the Korean alphabet, where each block represents one syllable of speech, and is used in the Korean language for words such as "갤러리" (gaelleori, meaning "gallery") or in the context of technical terms and loanwords.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC24
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gael
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
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 갤
HTML Hex Encoding 갤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB0 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC24
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC24
C/C++/Java Escape \uac24

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