U+AC27 "갧" Hangul Syllable Gaelb Unicode Character
U+AC27 "갧" Hangul Syllable Gaelb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄱ” (g), the vowel “ㅐ” (ae), and the final consonant “ㄼ” (lb). This specific syllable, pronounced approximately as “gaelb,” is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible Korean syllable blocks formed from leading consonants, vowels, and trailing consonants according to the standard syllabic layout. While it is a valid orthographic form, “갧” is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as its consonant cluster “lb” at the syllable end appears infrequently in natural language. The character serves to ensure complete coverage of the Hangul writing system for digital text processing, supporting accurate representation and rendering of Korean across different platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC27 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gaelb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC27 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac27 |