U+ACA9 "격" Hangul Syllable Gyeog Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
격
U+ACA9 "격" Hangul Syllable Gyeog is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "gyeok." It is formed from the initial consonant ㄱ (giyeok), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok), combining to create a single syllabic block. This character is used in the Korean language to write words such as "격렬" (gyeongnyeol) meaning "violent" or "intense," and it commonly appears in formal, technical, and everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACA9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyeog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "겨" U+ACA8 Hangul Syllable Gyeo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 격 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 격 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaca9 |