U+AC32 "갲" Hangul Syllable Gaej Unicode Character
U+AC32 "갲" Hangul Syllable Gaej is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "gaej." It combines the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j) as its batchim, forming a single character block according to the standard syllabic layout of Korean writing. This character is classified in Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllables built from the modern Korean alphabet using a systematic logical ordering. While "갲" is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Unicode standard, it is considered extremely rare and is not commonly used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, making its appearance largely a product of the comprehensive encoding system rather than frequent linguistic usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC32 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gaej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC32 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC32 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac32 |