U+AC97 "겗" Hangul Syllable Gelb Unicode Character
U+AC97 "겗" Hangul Syllable Gelb is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (lb). This character is part of the vast Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the modern Korean alphabet to facilitate digital text processing and display. The specific syllable "겗" is not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary but follows the standard orthographic rules defined for the language, where consonant clusters such as "ㄼ" in the final position can alter pronunciation depending on phonetic context. Understanding such characters is essential for accurate text rendering and linguistic analysis in Korean computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC97 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gelb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac97 |