U+B002 "뀂" Hangul Syllable Ggwebs Unicode Character
U+B002 "뀂" Hangul Syllable Ggwebs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, constructed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed double consonant pronounced like a forced "kk") with the medial vowel "ㅞ" (pronounced "we") and the final consonant "ㅄ" (a cluster of "b" and "s" sounds, though in modern Korean it is typically pronounced as a plain "b" or "p" at the end of a syllable). This syllable represents a phonetic unit in the Korean language, though it is extremely rare in actual usage and appears in only a handful of words or technical contexts, such as the verb "뀂다" (ggweobda), which means "to sew" or "to stitch" in a specific dialect or historical form. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded for digital text processing to ensure full representation of all theoretically possible Korean syllable combinations, even those that are obsolete or rarely used.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B002 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwebs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꿰" U+AFF0 Hangul Syllable Ggwe "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뀂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뀂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x80 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB002 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B002 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub002 |