U+B043 "끃" Hangul Syllable Ggyuh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B043 "끃" Hangul Syllable Ggyuh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language to represent the sound "ggyuh." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed double consonant representing a hard "g" sound) with the medial vowel "ㅠ" (the vowel "yu") and the final consonant "ㅎ" (the aspirated "h" sound), though this specific syllable is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary. As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Korean writing system, which can theoretically produce thousands of syllables by arranging initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants in a single square block.

General Properties

Code Point U+B043
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyuh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 끃
HTML Hex Encoding 끃
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x81 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB043
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B043
C/C++/Java Escape \ub043

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