U+AC2C "갬" Hangul Syllable Gaem Unicode Character
U+AC2C "갬" Hangul Syllable Gaem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "gaem" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables that are formed algorithmically from the basic jamo characters. In practical usage, "갬" appears in Korean text as a phonetic syllable, though it is not among the most common syllables and is often found in loanwords, onomatopoeia, or specific vocabulary rather than in everyday native Korean words. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital systems can correctly represent and display this syllable in various contexts, from typing and web pages to software localization.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC2C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gaem |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "개" U+AC1C Hangul Syllable Gae "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 갬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 갬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB0 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac2c |