U+AC58 "걘" Hangul Syllable Gyaen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
걘
U+AC58 "걘" Hangul Syllable Gyaen is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g or k) and the vowel "ㅒ" (yae) followed by the final consonant "ㄴ" (n), creating the sound "gyaen" or "kyen." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses the complete set of South Korean standard Hangul syllables arranged in a specific order based on the National Academy of the Korean Language's dictionary sequencing. While "걘" is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Korean writing system, it is rarely used in modern Korean vocabulary, appearing primarily in specialized contexts such as historical, linguistic, or transcribed foreign words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyaen |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac58 |