U+AC57 "걗" Hangul Syllable Gyaegs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC57 "걗" Hangul Syllable Gyaegs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gy" (ㄱ + ㅑ) and the final consonant "gs" (ㄳ), which is pronounced as /kjɛks/ or /kja̠ks/ depending on regional accent. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters, and is used primarily in written Korean for words or grammatical forms that require this specific syllable. The character is visually composed of the letters ᄀ (giyeok) and ᅣ (ya) stacked in the initial position, followed by the final consonant cluster ᆪ (giyeok with siot), all combined into a single square block.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC57
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyaegs
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
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 걗
HTML Hex Encoding 걗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB1 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC57
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC57
C/C++/Java Escape \uac57

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