U+ACD4 "곔" Hangul Syllable Gyem Unicode Character
U+ACD4 "곔" Hangul Syllable Gyem is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, representing a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant “기역” (g), the medial vowel “ㅖ” (ye), and the final consonant “ㅁ” (m), resulting in the phonetic value “gyeom.” This syllable is not among the most commonly used in modern Korean, but it appears in specific lexical contexts, such as the word “껌” (gum), though that example uses a different initial consonant; notably, “곔” itself is used in the Korean word for “gyeom” (as in a type of salted seaweed or a specific term), contributing to the rich inventory of over 11,000 precomposed Hangul syllables that cover all possible legal combinations of Korean phonemes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACD4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 곔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 곔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACD4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACD4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacd4 |