U+AC85 "겅" Hangul Syllable Geong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겅
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 |