U+B031 "뀱" Hangul Syllable Ggyulg Unicode Character
U+B031 "뀱" Hangul Syllable Ggyulg is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing a single Korean phonetic unit. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, doubled sound akin to a harder 'g' or 'k'), the vowel "ㅠ" (pronounced like the 'yu' in "you"), and the final consonant cluster "ㄺ" (which combines an 'l' and a 'g' sound). This particular syllable is not a common word in modern Korean vocabulary, but it can appear in specialized contexts, such as in South Korean official documents or archaic phonetic transcriptions, where its pronunciation roughly follows the sound "ggyulg." As part of the Unicode standard, it exists primarily to facilitate consistent digital representation and text rendering for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B031 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyulg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "뀨" U+B028 Hangul Syllable Ggyu "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뀱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뀱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x80 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB031 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B031 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub031 |