U+ACE4 "곤" Hangul Syllable Gon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
곤
U+ACE4 "곤" Hangul Syllable Gon is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "gon," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok) with the vowel "ㅗ" (o) and the final consonant "ㄴ" (nieun). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables of the modern Korean alphabet in a single code point for efficient text processing. In the Korean language, this syllable appears in various words, such as "곤란" (gonran, meaning difficulty) and "곤충" (gonchung, meaning insect), and its usage reflects the systematic nature of Hangul, where syllables are built from individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACE4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "고" U+ACE0 Hangul Syllable Go "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 곤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 곤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uace4 |