U+AC5A "걚" Hangul Syllable Gyaenh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC5A "걚" Hangul Syllable Gyaenh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "gyaenh" (겨ᇹ). It is formed from the initial consonant giyeok (ㄱ), the medial vowel ya (ㅑ), and the final consonant nieun (ㄴ) combined with the archaic jongseong hieuh (ㅎ), making it a rarely used or historical syllable. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) and is encoded as a single codepoint for efficient text processing, though it is not commonly employed in standard contemporary Korean writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC5A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyaenh
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
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 걚
HTML Hex Encoding 걚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB1 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC5A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC5A
C/C++/Java Escape \uac5a

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