U+AC38 "갸" Hangul Syllable Gya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
갸
U+AC38 "갸" Hangul Syllable Gya is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "gya" as a combination of the initial consonant “ㄱ” (giyeok) and the vowel “ㅑ” (ya). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which was designed to encode the thousands of possible syllable blocks formed from the basic jamo characters of the Korean writing system. This specific character is used in the Korean language to form words and is typically rendered as a single, indivisible glyph in Korean text processing, where it functions as a complete phonetic unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gya |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac38 |