U+AC59 "걙" Hangul Syllable Gyaenj Unicode Character
U+AC59 "걙" Hangul Syllable Gyaenj is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a single block of Korean text that combines the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㄵ" (nieun-jieut). This specific syllable does not correspond to a common Korean word in modern usage, as it appears to be primarily a theoretical or rare phonetic combination found in the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive coverage of all possible Hangul syllable blocks. Its existence highlights the systematic and logical structure of the Hangul writing system, where characters are formed by stacking consonants and vowels into syllabic units, allowing for the representation of both common and uncommon sounds in the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC59 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyaenj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac59 |