U+AC2A "갪" Hangul Syllable Gaelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
갪
U+AC2A "갪" Hangul Syllable Gaelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "gaelp." It is constructed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (lb, pronounced as lp in this context). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single codepoint for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and standard composition, the syllable "갪" is extremely rare in everyday Korean vocabulary and is primarily used in specialized linguistic contexts or as a theoretical example of Hangul's combinatorial structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC2A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gaelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac2a |