U+ACFB "곻" Hangul Syllable Goh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+ACFB "곻" Hangul Syllable Goh is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "goh," formed from the initial consonant ᄀ (g) and the vowel ᅩ (o), with the final consonant ᄒ (h) completing the syllable block. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF) in Unicode, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations. Specifically, this character corresponds to the 579th syllable in the modern Hangul ordering, and while it is a valid and structurally defined syllable in the Korean writing system, it is not a commonly used word in contemporary Korean vocabulary. Its primary purpose is to ensure complete and standardized digital representation of the Korean script across platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ACFB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Goh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 곻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 곻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB3 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xACFB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ACFB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uacfb |