U+ACD9 "곙" Hangul Syllable Gyeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
곙
U+ACD9 "곙" Hangul Syllable Gyeng is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "gyeng" in the Korean writing system, formed from the initial consonant ㄱ (g) and the medial vowel ㅖ (ye) combined with the final consonant ㅇ (ng). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllabic units to streamline text processing and display for the Korean language. This character is used in writing Modern Korean, appearing in words such as "곤경" meaning difficulty or predicament, and is typically rendered in a square-like block shape that characterizes the script's visual structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACD9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 곙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 곙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACD9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacd9 |