U+B042 "끂" Hangul Syllable Ggyup Unicode Character
U+B042 "끂" Hangul Syllable Ggyup is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggyup" which is formed by combining the initial consonant "gg" (a tensed or fortis "g" sound) with the medial vowel "yu" and the final consonant "p". As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character to facilitate text processing and display for the Korean writing system, where such syllables are standard in the orthography and do not have a distinct standalone meaning but function as a phonetic component within words. While not a common or frequently used syllable in modern Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic completeness of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which covers all possible syllable combinations derived from the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B042 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyup |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 끂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 끂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x81 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB042 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B042 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub042 |