U+AC9C "겜" Hangul Syllable Gem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겜
U+AC9C "겜" Hangul Syllable Gem is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "gem," constructed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ," the medial vowel "ㅔ," and the final consonant "ㅁ" according to the structural rules of the modern Hangul script. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses the full set of 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet. It is used in writing the Korean language, notably appearing in words like 게임 (geim), the Korean loanword for the English word "game," where it commonly occurs in contexts such as video gaming slang and abbreviations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AC9C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAC9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AC9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uac9c |