U+ACA2 "겢" Hangul Syllable Gej Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겢
U+ACA2 "겢" Hangul Syllable Gej is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "gej" (a combination of the initial consonant "g," the medial vowel "e," and the final consonant "j" as the Korean letter jieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed by combining initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants, a design principle that supports efficient digital text processing. While "겢" is a valid and correctly formed syllable for phonetic representation, it does not commonly appear in everyday vocabulary and is rarely used outside of specialized contexts or phonetic transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACA2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACA2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACA2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaca2 |