U+AC8F "겏" Hangul Syllable Gegs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겏
U+AC8F "겏" Hangul Syllable Gegs is a composite character from the modern Korean writing system, representing a syllabic block formed by the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant cluster "ㄳ" (gs). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes precomposed syllables to enable efficient text processing in Korean. As a valid but rare syllable in contemporary Korean, "겏" does not commonly appear in everyday vocabulary but is part of the comprehensive set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables defined in the Unicode Standard, ensuring complete coverage for historical or linguistic applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC8F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gegs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac8f |