U+AC53 "걓" Hangul Syllable Gyah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
걓
U+AC53 "걓" Hangul Syllable Gyah is a precomposed character in the Hangul Syllables block, representing a specific Korean syllable. It is formed by combining the initial consonant giyeok (ㄱ), the vowel ya (ㅑ), and the final consonant hieut (ㅎ), resulting in the phonetic value “gyah” or “gyat.” This syllable does not commonly appear in modern standard Korean vocabulary, but it exists within the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive coverage of all possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system, as per the principles of the Hangul Syllables block which encodes 11,172 syllables logically ordered by the sequence of initials, vowels, and finals.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC53 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyah |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac53 |