U+B020 "뀠" Hangul Syllable Ggwiss Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B020 "뀠" Hangul Syllable Ggwiss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ggw" (a tense, labialized velar sound) and the vowel "i" with a final consonant "ss" (a tense sibilant). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final letter sequences. This specific syllable is used in the Korean language to represent a distinct lexical sound, though it appears relatively infrequently in common vocabulary compared to more frequent Hangul syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+B020
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwiss
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뀠
HTML Hex Encoding 뀠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x80 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB020
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B020
C/C++/Java Escape \ub020

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