U+AC98 "겘" Hangul Syllable Gels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겘
U+AC98 "겘" Hangul Syllable Gels is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "gels" formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (ls). As part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point, this character is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic unit within words, though it is a relatively rare syllable in contemporary usage. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation, storage, and processing of the Korean language across modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC98 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac98 |