U+AC96 "겖" Hangul Syllable Gelm Unicode Character
U+AC96 "겖" Hangul Syllable Gelm is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gelm" through a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant cluster "ㄻ" (lm). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes modern and archaic syllables used in the Korean language. While "겖" is not a common syllable in contemporary Korean, it follows the standard morphophonemic rules of Hangul composition, where individual jamo letters are combined into a single Unicode code point for efficient text processing. Its usage is primarily theoretical or pedagogical, arising in linguistic studies or digital font testing rather than everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC96 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac96 |