U+B054 "끔" Hangul Syllable Ggeum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
끔
U+B054 "끔" Hangul Syllable Ggeum is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "ggeum," formed by combining the initial consonant ᄁ (ssanggiyeok) with the vowel ᅳ (eu) and the final consonant ᄆ (mieum). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the modern Korean alphabet, and its inclusion allows for efficient text processing and display in digital environments. This syllable is used in written Korean to form words and morphemes, contributing to the language's orthographic system where individual syllables are compactly represented as single code points rather than sequences of jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B054 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeum |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 끔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 끔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x81 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB054 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B054 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub054 |