U+B024 "뀤" Hangul Syllable Ggwik Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B024 "뀤" Hangul Syllable Ggwik is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggwik." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄁ (ssang giyeok, a double "g/k" sound), the vowel ᅱ (wi, pronounced like "wee"), and the final consonant ᆨ (giyeok, a "k" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Hangul letters in a single codepoint for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Korean writing system, it is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary and is not a commonly used word in everyday speech or writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+B024
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwik
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뀤
HTML Hex Encoding 뀤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x80 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB024
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B024
C/C++/Java Escape \ub024

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