U+AC80 "검" Hangul Syllable Geom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
검
U+AC80 "검" Hangul Syllable Geom is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "geom." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g/k) with the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo) and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m), and it carries a variety of meanings in the Korean language, most commonly referring to "sword" or "knife" as in the word "검" (geom). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which standardizes thousands of such syllabic combinations to support digital text processing and display for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC80 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 검 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 검 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac80 |