U+AC0B "갋" Hangul Syllable Galb Unicode Character
U+AC0B "갋" Hangul Syllable Galb is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "galb". It is composed of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㄹㅂ" (lb), combined into a single character cell as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode. This block encodes all possible syllabic combinations from the modern Korean alphabet, and while "갋" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to the rules of Hangul, it is not commonly used in standard modern Korean vocabulary. Its existence in the Unicode standard ensures accurate representation and digital storage for any context where such a syllable might appear, such as in historical texts, linguistic studies, or transliterations of foreign words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC0B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Galb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "가" U+AC00 Hangul Syllable Ga "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac0b |