U+AC6B "걫" Hangul Syllable Gyaec Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC6B "걫" Hangul Syllable Gyaec is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gy" (ㄱ and ㅑ), the vowel "ae" (ㅐ), and the final consonant "c" (ㅊ). This syllable is formed by combining the Hangul jamo characters for these sounds into a single codepoint within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to cover the full range of 11,172 possible syllabic blocks used in standard Korean orthography. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, "걫" exemplifies how Unicode encodes the complex, block-based structure of Hangul, allowing for seamless text processing and display without requiring dynamic jamo composition.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC6B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyaec
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 걫
HTML Hex Encoding 걫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB1 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC6B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC6B
C/C++/Java Escape \uac6b

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