U+AC78 "걸" Hangul Syllable Geol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
걸
U+AC78 "걸" Hangul Syllable Geol is a precomposed character representing a specific syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), combining to produce the sound "geol." This syllable is commonly used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "걸다" (geolda), meaning "to hang," and "걸음" (georeum), meaning "step" or "walk." In Unicode, it is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that allow for efficient text encoding and display of Korean text without requiring separate character combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC78 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 걸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 걸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB1 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC78 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC78 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac78 |