U+AC9A "겚" Hangul Syllable Gelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겚
U+AC9A "겚" Hangul Syllable Gelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, which represents the sound "gelp". It is formed by combining the initial consonant "기역" (g), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "리을" (l) with the "비읍" (p) as a compound final consonant. This specific syllable is not commonly used in standard contemporary Korean vocabulary but exists as a technically possible and valid construct within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to encode all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final jamo characters. Its inclusion ensures complete representation of the Korean writing system for historical, linguistic, and computational purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC9A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac9a |