U+B07A "끺" Hangul Syllable Ggyip Unicode Character
U+B07A "끺" Hangul Syllable Ggyip is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "ggyip" in the modern Korean Hangul writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant 'ㄲ' (the doubled 'giyeok' indicating a tense or fortis sound), the medial vowel 'ㅣ' (the 'i' vowel), and the final consonant 'ㅂ' (the 'bieup'). This syllable is part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet. While it is a valid and defined character, it is extremely rare in everyday Korean usage, as the "ggyip" sound does not correspond to any common native Korean word. Its inclusion in the standard ensures complete coverage of theoretical Hangul syllable forms for digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B07A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyip |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 끺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 끺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x81 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB07A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B07A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub07a |