U+B03D "뀽" Hangul Syllable Ggyung Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B03D "뀽" Hangul Syllable Ggyung is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "ggyung," combining the initial consonant ᄁ (a tensed or double "g" sound) with the medial vowel ᅭ (yo) and the final consonant ᆼ (ng). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is an individual code point that simplifies text processing by encoding the entire syllable rather than requiring separate combining characters. Its usage is relatively rare, primarily occurring in specific Korean words or names, and it exemplifies the systematic structure of the Korean writing system, which groups letters into syllabic blocks for efficient communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+B03D
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyung
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 뀽
HTML Hex Encoding 뀽
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x80 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB03D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B03D
C/C++/Java Escape \ub03d

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