U+B079 "끹" Hangul Syllable Ggyit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
끹
U+B079 "끹" Hangul Syllable Ggyit is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ggit," formed by combining the initial consonant ᄁ (ssang-giyeok), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ᆮ (tieut). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes modern Korean syllables as single code points for efficient text processing. This syllable is used in written Korean to construct words, particularly in contexts where compound consonants or specific phonetic structures are required, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary compared to more common Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B079 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyit |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 끹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 끹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x81 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB079 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B079 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub079 |