U+B048 "끈" Hangul Syllable Ggeun Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
끈
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 |