U+AC76 "걶" Hangul Syllable Geonh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC76 "걶" Hangul Syllable Geonh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "geonh." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄶ" (nh), which together create a single syllable block. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encompasses all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters arranged into syllabic units. In practical use, "걶" appears in Korean text as part of words or phrases, though its frequency is relatively low compared to more common syllables, and its specific meaning or usage depends entirely on the lexical context in which it appears.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC76
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Geonh
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
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 걶
HTML Hex Encoding 걶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB1 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC76
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC76
C/C++/Java Escape \uac76

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter