U+ACC9 "곉" Hangul Syllable Gyenj Unicode Character
U+ACC9 "곉" Hangul Syllable Gyenj is a composite glyph representing a single syllable in the modern Korean writing system Hangul, formed by combining the initial consonant "ᄀ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ᆽ" (jieut). This syllable, pronounced approximately as "gyenj" in the Revised Romanization system, is one of thousands of precomposed Hangul syllables encoded in the Unicode standard to facilitate efficient text processing and display of the Korean language. While not a commonly used or standalone word in contemporary Korean, its existence underscores the systematic and modular nature of Hangul, where syllabic blocks are constructed from individual jamo characters to represent all possible phonetic combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACC9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyenj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 곉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 곉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacc9 |