U+AC88 "겈" Hangul Syllable Geok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겈
U+AC88 "겈" Hangul Syllable Geok is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "geok," which is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (k). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables that can be formed from the modern Korean alphabet. As a syllable, "겈" follows the systematic compositional logic of Hangul, where characters are arranged in a block to depict the phonetic structure of a spoken syllable. While it is a valid and correctly encoded Unicode character, it is not commonly used in standard modern Korean vocabulary and may appear in specialized linguistic texts or archaic word forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC88 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac88 |