U+AC8C "게" Hangul Syllable Ge Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
게
U+AC8C "게" Hangul Syllable Ge is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "ge" formed by combining the initial consonant ᄀ (giyeok) and the vowel ᅦ (e). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is widely used in modern Korean writing to represent words such as the common noun "게" meaning "crab" or as a grammatical particle. This character simplifies text encoding and processing by providing a single code point for a syllable that would otherwise require two separate jamo characters, thereby enhancing efficiency in digital Korean language applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC8C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ge |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok "ᅦ" U+1166 Hangul Jungseong E |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 게 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 게 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac8c |