U+ACC8 "곈" Hangul Syllable Gyen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
곈
U+ACC8 "곈" Hangul Syllable Gyen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "gyen" and formed by the combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok) and the vowel "ㅖ" (ye) with the final consonant "ㄴ" (nieun). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllables created from Korean jamo characters, and is encoded as a single codepoint for efficient text processing and display. In actual Korean language use, this syllable is relatively rare but may appear in certain vocabulary or transcriptions, such as in the word 곈 (gyen), which can mean "to be shallow" or refer to a specific term depending on context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACC8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "계" U+ACC4 Hangul Syllable Gye "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 곈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 곈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacc8 |