U+B053 "끓" Hangul Syllable Ggeulh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
끓
U+B053 "끓" Hangul Syllable Ggeulh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "ggeulh." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed version of "g" or "kk"), the medial vowel "ㅡ" (eu), and the final consonant "ㅎ" (h). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, which organizes syllables in alphabetic order based on the Korean alphabet, "끓" is used in standard Korean text to write words such as "끓다" (to boil), highlighting its role in everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B053 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeulh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 끓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 끓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x81 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB053 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B053 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub053 |