U+AC58 "걘" Hangul Syllable Gyaen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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