U+AC40 "걀" Hangul Syllable Gyal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
걀
U+AC40 "걀" Hangul Syllable Gyal is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "gyal." This syllable is formed from the initial consonant ㄱ (giyeok), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), combining to create a single block character used in written Korean. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded to facilitate digital text processing and display for the Korean language, where such syllables are standard in modern orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC40 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyal |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac40 |