U+ACF4 "곴" Hangul Syllable Goss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+ACF4 "곴" Hangul Syllable Goss is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "goss." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅗ" (o), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), which together create a syllable that does not commonly appear in standard modern Korean vocabulary but exists within the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive coverage of all possible Hangul syllable blocks. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes 11,172 syllables in a systematic, algorithmic order based on the Korean alphabet's jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACF4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Goss |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "고" U+ACE0 Hangul Syllable Go "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 곴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 곴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacf4 |