U+AC28 "갨" Hangul Syllable Gaels Unicode Character
U+AC28 "갨" Hangul Syllable Gaels is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, representing a /g/ sound), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae, representing the vowel sound similar to the 'a' in "cat"), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (rieul and siot, representing an /l/ followed by an /s/ sound, which together form the final cluster "-ls"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded for efficient text representation, allowing "갨" to be displayed as a single glyph rather than as a sequence of separate jamo components. In practical use, this syllable is rare and does not correspond to a common Korean word, but it demonstrates the systematic structure of Hangul where thousands of possible syllables can be formed by combining a set of 14 consonants and 10 vowels.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC28 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gaels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC28 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC28 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac28 |