U+B00D "뀍" Hangul Syllable Ggwig Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B00D "뀍" Hangul Syllable Ggwig is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the consonant “ㄲ” (which is a tensed or “double” “ㄱ” sound, similar to a hard “g” or “kk”) and the vowel “ㅟ” (pronounced like the French “ui” or the English “wee”), followed by the final consonant “ㄱ” (a “g” or “k” sound). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode and is one of thousands of such syllables that were encoded to allow efficient representation of Korean text, as each syllable is a complete phonological unit in the language. However, “뀍” is an extremely rare or even obsolete syllable in modern Korean, as it does not correspond to any common word in standard vocabulary, and it is typically encountered only in specialized linguistic contexts, historical texts, or as an example of the theoretical combinatorial capacity of Hangul. Its Unicode inclusion ensures that any possible Hangul syllable, regardless of its actual u

General Properties

Code Point U+B00D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwig
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "뀌" U+B00C Hangul Syllable Ggwi
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뀍
HTML Hex Encoding 뀍
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x80 0x8D
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB00D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B00D
C/C++/Java Escape \ub00d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
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 Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter