U+AC8E "겎" Hangul Syllable Gegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AC8E "겎" Hangul Syllable Gegg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic block for "gegg." This specific syllable is composed of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final double consonant "ㄲ" (gg), which is a tensed or reinforced version of the single "ㄱ" sound. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character for efficient text processing, following the standard algorithmic arrangement of Korean syllables based on the order of initial, medial, and final jamo.

General Properties

Code Point U+AC8E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gegg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "게" U+AC8C Hangul Syllable Ge
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 겎
HTML Hex Encoding 겎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB2 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAC8E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AC8E
C/C++/Java Escape \uac8e

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