U+AC73 "걳" Hangul Syllable Geogs Unicode Character
U+AC73 "걳" Hangul Syllable Geogs is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant giyeok (ㄱ), the vowel eo (ㅓ), and the final consonant giyeok (ㄱ) in its basic letter sequence. This specific syllable represents the sound "geoks" or "geogs" in standard Korean romanization, though it is a relatively rare and uncommon syllable in modern Korean vocabulary, often appearing in archaic terms, specialized linguistic contexts, or as part of name transcriptions. Its existence within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block highlights the comprehensive encoding of Korean phonetic combinations, ensuring that even less frequent syllables are digitally representable and accessible for accurate text rendering and linguistic analysis.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC73 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geogs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "거" U+AC70 Hangul Syllable Geo "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC73 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC73 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac73 |