U+ACA7 "겧" Hangul Syllable Geh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+ACA7 "겧" Hangul Syllable Geh is a precomposed Hangul syllable formed by combining the initial consonant giyeok (ㄱ), the vowel ae (ㅐ), and the final consonant jieut (ㅎ), which together produce the sound "geh". It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes the complete set of 11,172 possible modern Korean syllables. This character is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic unit, though it is not among the most commonly occurring syllables in everyday language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can properly render and process the full range of Korean syllable blocks without requiring separate encoding for each individual consonant and vowel component.

General Properties

Code Point U+ACA7
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Geh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 겧
HTML Hex Encoding 겧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB2 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xACA7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000ACA7
C/C++/Java Escape \uaca7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter