U+AC4D "걍" Hangul Syllable Gyang Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC4D "걍" Hangul Syllable Gyang is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄱ” (g), the medial vowel “ㅑ” (ya), and the final consonant “ㅇ” (ng) to form the sound “gyang.” It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all modern syllables of the Korean alphabet in a unified way, allowing for seamless digital text processing and display across platforms. While not a common syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, it appears in specific linguistic contexts, such as dialectal speech or transliterations of foreign words like “gyang” in loanwords.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC4D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyang
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 걍
HTML Hex Encoding 걍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB1 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC4D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC4D
C/C++/Java Escape \uac4d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter