U+AC68 "걨" Hangul Syllable Gyaess Unicode Character
U+AC68 "걨" Hangul Syllable Gyaess is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gy" (ㄱ with a yotized vowel indicator), the medial vowel "ae" (ㅐ), and the final consonant "ss" (ㅆ). Formed by combining the lead jamo for "gy" (ᄀ with a palatalization mark) and the vowel "ae" (ᅢ) as the medial, with "ss" (ᆻ) as the trailing consonant, this syllable appears in the Hangul Syllables block, which codifies over 11,000 precomposed syllables for efficient text processing in standard Korean. While it is a valid and linguistically defined syllable, it is relatively uncommon in everyday Korean vocabulary, primarily occurring in specialized or older writings rather than common modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC68 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyaess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac68 |