U+B008 "뀈" Hangul Syllable Ggwek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뀈
U+B008 "뀈" Hangul Syllable Ggwek is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ggwek," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, a tense double 'g' sound), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we, a diphthong pronounced like the English 'we'), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk, an aspirated 'k' sound). This character is part of the massive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible modern Korean syllable blocks as single code points, enabling efficient text processing and display for the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B008 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뀈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뀈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x80 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB008 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B008 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub008 |