U+AC8F "겏" Hangul Syllable Gegs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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