U+AC5C "걜" Hangul Syllable Gyael Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC5C "걜" Hangul Syllable Gyael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. In standard Korean usage, this syllable is rare and does not commonly appear in everyday vocabulary, though it may occur in transliterations, technical linguistic contexts, or loanwords where the specific sound combination is needed.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC5C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyael
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
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 걜
HTML Hex Encoding 걜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB1 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC5C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC5C
C/C++/Java Escape \uac5c

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