U+AC5D "걝" Hangul Syllable Gyaelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC5D "걝" Hangul Syllable Gyaelg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gy" (ㄱ with a yod), the medial vowel "ae" (ㅐ), and the final consonant "lg" (ㄺ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from Korean jamo characters according to the standard syllabic structure. It is used exclusively in the Korean language, typically in writing words that require this specific phonetic blend, such as in certain verb stems or less common vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC5D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyaelg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 걝
HTML Hex Encoding 걝
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB1 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC5D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC5D
C/C++/Java Escape \uac5d

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