U+AC55 "걕" Hangul Syllable Gyaeg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC55 "걕" Hangul Syllable Gyaeg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, sounding like a hard 'g' or 'k'), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This syllable, pronounced roughly like "gyak" in English, is part of the extensive set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables encoded in Unicode under the Hangul Syllables block. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Korean alphabet, it is considered rare in actual vocabulary, as it does not commonly appear in standard Korean words or everyday speech.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC55
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyaeg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "걔" U+AC54 Hangul Syllable Gyae
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 걕
HTML Hex Encoding 걕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB1 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC55
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC55
C/C++/Java Escape \uac55

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