U+AC42 "걂" Hangul Syllable Gyalm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
걂
U+AC42 "걂" Hangul Syllable Gyalm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of Korea, representing the phonetic compound "gyalm". It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅑ" (ya), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (rieul-mieum), which together create a sound that exists within the phonological inventory of Korean. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (AC00 to D7AF) in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient digital text processing. While "걂" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is not commonly encountered in everyday Korean vocabulary, as its specific phonetic composition is rare in standard words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC42 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyalm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac42 |