U+B056 "끖" Hangul Syllable Ggeubs Unicode Character
U+B056 "끖" Hangul Syllable Ggeubs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggeub" followed by the consonant "s" (that is, the final sound /p̚/ as written with the jamo ᄀ, ᅳ, ᆸ, and ᆺ). This specific syllable is formed from the initial consonant "Ggyeo" (ㄲ), the medial vowel "eu" (ㅡ), and the final consonants "b" (ㅂ) and "s" (ㅅ) combined into the single syllabic block "끖." In practical use, this character is rarely encountered in standard Korean vocabulary, as it belongs to a set of syllables that were systematically encoded to cover all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo, making it valuable primarily for historical or linguistic documentation rather than everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B056 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeubs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 끖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 끖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x81 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB056 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B056 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub056 |