U+ACFC "과" Hangul Syllable Gwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
과
U+ACFC "과" Hangul Syllable Gwa is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "gwa" in the Korean writing system, Hangul. It is formed from the initial consonant ᄀ (giyeok, representing /g/) and the medial vowel ᆃ (wa, a diphthong derived from combining /o/ and /a/), with no final consonant, as part of the Korean block within the Unicode standard. This character is used extensively in modern Korean text, often appearing as a conjunctive particle meaning "and" or as part of compound words, and it occupies its lexical position in the syllabic chart for the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACFC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwa |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 과 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 과 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacfc |