U+AC85 "겅" Hangul Syllable Geong Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC85 "겅" Hangul Syllable Geong is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung). Codified in the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), it represents the phonetic sound "geong," which appears in Korean vocabulary and can be found in words such as "거리" (geori, meaning street) when used in compound or poetic contexts. This character is utilized in written Korean for both native words and loanword transcriptions, and it is encoded in UTF-8 as the three byte sequence EA B2 85.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC85
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Geong
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 겅
HTML Hex Encoding 겅
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB2 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC85
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC85
C/C++/Java Escape \uac85

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