U+B051 "끑" Hangul Syllable Ggeult Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B051 "끑" Hangul Syllable Ggeult is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggeult" as a single block character. It is composed of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g/k" sound), the vowel "ㅡ" (a high back unrounded vowel), and the final consonant "ㄹㅌ" (a conjunct cluster of "l" and "t"), following the standard pattern of syllable formation in Hangul. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) and is used in written Korean to represent words or morphemes where that specific syllabic sound occurs, though it is relatively rare in common vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+B051
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggeult
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
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 끑
HTML Hex Encoding 끑
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x81 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB051
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B051
C/C++/Java Escape \ub051

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