U+AC5B "걛" Hangul Syllable Gyaed Unicode Character
U+AC5B "걛" Hangul Syllable Gyaed is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gy" (ㄱ and ㅣ combined as a digraph), the medial vowel "ae" (ㅐ), and the final consonant "d" (ㄷ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible two or three jamo combinations that form complete Korean syllables. As a precomposed form, it allows for efficient text processing and display, ensuring that the syllable appears as a single, cohesive block that maintains the correct visual stacking and spacing within Korean text. While relatively uncommon in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it remains a valid and accessible character for representing specific linguistic or historical usages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC5B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyaed |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac5b |