U+3132 "ㄲ" Hangul Letter Ssangkiyeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㄲ
U+3132 "ㄲ" Hangul Letter Ssangkiyeok is a precomposed Hangul consonant representing the double or tensed version of the basic consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). It corresponds to the Korean letter 'ㄲ' in modern Hangul, which produces a fortis, or "tense," sound similar to the 'k' in "sky" but with a tighter glottal constriction, and it is Romanized as "kk" in standard Korean transliteration systems. This character is part of the Hangul Compatibility Jamo block in Unicode, which provides single codepoints for letters that are also commonly used as components in the modern Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3132 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Ssangkiyeok |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Ssang Giyeog |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㄲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㄲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x84 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3132 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003132 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3132 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| 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 | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |