U+B057 "끗" Hangul Syllable Ggeus Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
끗
U+B057 "끗" Hangul Syllable Ggeus is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "ggeus." It is formed from the initial consonant ᄁ (ssang giyeok), the medial vowel ᅳ (eu), and the final consonant ᄉ (siot). In Korean, this syllable serves as a crucial component in words like "끝" (kkeut), meaning "end" or "tip," though it appears in various contexts depending on its combination within written text. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, U+B057 was introduced to encode the complete set of syllabic forms used in standard Korean orthography, facilitating digital representation of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B057 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggeus |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 끗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 끗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x81 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB057 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B057 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub057 |