U+ACA8 "겨" Hangul Syllable Gyeo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
겨
U+ACA8 "겨" Hangul Syllable Gyeo is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "gyeo" as in the English approximation of the word "gyeong" or "gyeoul" (winter). It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g or k) with the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and it does not include a final consonant. As part of the CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Unified Ideographs block, this character enables efficient text representation in digital environments, allowing Korean writers and speakers to type the syllable as a single, atomic unit rather than assembling its individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyeo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok "ᅧ" U+1167 Hangul Jungseong Yeo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaca8 |