U+B038 "뀸" Hangul Syllable Ggyum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
뀸
U+B038 "뀸" Hangul Syllable Ggyum is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggyum." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense "gg" sound) combined with the medial vowel "ㅠ" (yu) and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllable combinations that can be formed from the Korean alphabet, assigned sequentially based on phonetic order. While not among the most frequently used syllables in standard Korean text, "뀸" demonstrates the systematic and logically structured nature of the Hangul script, where each character is a complete and distinct typographic unit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B038 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyum |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 뀸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 뀸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x80 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB038 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B038 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub038 |