U+ACB7 "겷" Hangul Syllable Gyeolh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+ACB7 "겷" Hangul Syllable Gyeolh is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "gyeolh." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant cluster "ㄹㅎ" (lh) which is an uncommon but orthographically valid coda. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean writing system in a single code point for efficient text processing. The syllable itself is rarely used in modern Korean but may appear in historical texts or specialized linguistic contexts where accurate phonetic transcription is needed.

General Properties

Code Point U+ACB7
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyeolh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 겷
HTML Hex Encoding 겷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB2 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xACB7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000ACB7
C/C++/Java Escape \uacb7

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