U+B017 "뀗" Hangul Syllable Ggwilb Unicode Character
U+B017 "뀗" Hangul Syllable Ggwilb is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "ggwilb," which is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, a tense "g" sound), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi, a front rounded vowel sound like "wee"), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup, a "b" or "p" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks for modern Korean, and it follows the standard syllabic structure where a leading consonant, a vowel, and an optional trailing consonant are combined into a single typographic unit. While this specific syllable may be rare in everyday modern Korean text, it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul writing system, which allows for the representation of a vast range of sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B017 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwilb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뀗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뀗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x80 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB017 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B017 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub017 |