U+AC31 "갱" Hangul Syllable Gaeng Unicode Character
U+AC31 "갱" Hangul Syllable Gaeng is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "gaeng." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄀ (giyeok, sounding like "g"), the vowel ㅐ (ae, a sound similar to the "a" in "cat"), and the final consonant ᆼ (ieung, representing the nasal "ng" sound). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it was added to support the efficient encoding of Korean text, allowing the language to be digitally represented without requiring separate codes for each individual jamo component. In Korean, "갱" can appear in various words, often carrying meanings related to "renewal" or "change," such as in the term 갱신 (gaengsin, meaning "renewal" or "update").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC31 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gaeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC31 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac31 |