U+B048 "끈" Hangul Syllable Ggeun Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B048 "끈" Hangul Syllable Ggeun is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean consonant cluster "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, a tensed 'gg' sound) followed by the vowel "ㅡ" (eu, a deep back unrounded vowel) and the final consonant "ㄴ" (nieun, an 'n' sound), together forming the phonetic value /kɯn/. As a valid syllable in the Korean writing system, it appears in words such as "끈" meaning "string," "cord," or "lace," commonly used to refer to various types of thin, flexible materials used for tying or binding. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible modern Korean syllabic blocks in a single code point for efficient text processing and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+B048
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggeun
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "끄" U+B044 Hangul Syllable Ggeu
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 끈
HTML Hex Encoding 끈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x81 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB048
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B048
C/C++/Java Escape \ub048

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