U+ACAE "겮" Hangul Syllable Gyeonh Unicode Character
U+ACAE "겮" Hangul Syllable Gyeonh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㄶ" (nh). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all 11,172 possible syllabic blocks of the Korean alphabet as individual characters for efficient digital text processing. In standard Korean, "겮" is a relatively rare syllable, but it appears in certain vocabulary and proper nouns, where its pronunciation carries the tensed, glottalized quality inherent to the final "nh" cluster. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that Korean text can be accurately represented and displayed across modern computing platforms, preserving the orthographic integrity of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACAE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyeonh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "겨" U+ACA8 Hangul Syllable Gyeo "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 겮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 겮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB2 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacae |