U+AC3B "갻" Hangul Syllable Gyags Unicode Character
U+AC3B "갻" Hangul Syllable Gyags is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "gyags," which is a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, sounding like a soft "g" or "k"), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya, a "yah" sound), and the final consonant "ㄳ" (a digraph of "ㄱ" and "ㅅ" sounding like "ks" or "x"). This syllable is encoded as part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which covers all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final characters to facilitate digital text processing. Although rare in modern Korean usage, it falls under the category of theoretical or historical syllables, as the Unicode system includes every phonetically valid combination within its modern range to ensure comprehensive representation of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC3B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyags |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "갸" U+AC38 Hangul Syllable Gya "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC3B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC3B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac3b |