U+ACC4 "계" Hangul Syllable Gye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
계
U+ACC4 "계" Hangul Syllable Gye is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gye" as in the English word "gye" or the beginning of "yet." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok) with the vertical vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and it functions as a single grapheme in encoded text for efficient digital representation of Korean. This syllable appears frequently in everyday Korean vocabulary and proper nouns, such as in the word "계획" (gyehoek) meaning "plan" or "계절" (gyejeol) meaning "season," and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Hangul Syllables block, which covers all possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACC4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gye |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok "ᅨ" U+1168 Hangul Jungseong Ye |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 계 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 계 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacc4 |