U+B066 "끦" Hangul Syllable Ggyinh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B066 "끦" Hangul Syllable Ggyinh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tensed and unaspirated velar plosive, double the character ᄀ), the medial vowel "yi" (a diphthong formed from ㅡ and ㅣ, represented by ㅢ), and the final consonant "nh" (a combination of the nasal ㄴ and the aspirated ㅎ, written as ᄂᇂ in old orthography but realized as a single codal feature in this syllable block). In contemporary Korean usage, this syllable is exceptionally rare and does not appear in standard vocabulary; it is primarily encountered in specialized linguistic contexts or historical textual analysis due to its unusual and phonologically complex composition that is largely obsolete in everyday speech.

General Properties

Code Point U+B066
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyinh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "끠" U+B060 Hangul Syllable Ggyi
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 끦
HTML Hex Encoding 끦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x81 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB066
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B066
C/C++/Java Escape \ub066

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