U+AC4E "걎" Hangul Syllable Gyaj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
걎
U+AC4E "걎" Hangul Syllable Gyaj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "giyeok" (ㄱ) with the medial vowel "ya" (ㅑ) and the final consonant "jieut" (ㅈ), pronounced roughly as "gyaj." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables formed by combining Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. While not a common syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, "걎" is a valid and correctly formed component of the Unicode standard, ensuring that all theoretically possible Hangul syllables have a unique digital representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC4E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac4e |