U+AC84 "겄" Hangul Syllable Geoss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겄
U+AC84 "겄" Hangul Syllable Geoss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot, a double s sound). This syllable is pronounced roughly as "geot" or "geoss" in Revised Romanization, with the final double consonant indicating a tense, unreleased "t" sound at the end of a syllable in standard Korean pronunciation. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it represents a distinct lexical unit in the Korean language, appearing in words or grammatical forms where the tense final consonant is required, such as certain verb stems or noun endings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC84 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geoss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC84 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC84 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac84 |