U+B04C "끌" Hangul Syllable Ggeul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
끌
U+B04C "끌" Hangul Syllable Ggeul is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, representing the phonetic sound "ggeul," where the initial consonant is a double or tense 'ㄲ' (ssanggiyeok) combined with the vowel 'ㅡ' (eu) and the final consonant 'ㄹ' (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. In practical usage, this syllable appears in Korean vocabulary such as "끌다" (ggeulda), meaning "to pull" or "to drag," highlighting its role in expressing tense consonant sounds that are distinctive in the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B04C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeul |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 끌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 끌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x81 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB04C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B04C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub04c |