U+B08D "낍" Hangul Syllable Ggib Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
낍
U+B08D "낍" Hangul Syllable Ggib is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g/k" sound), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (the long "ee" sound), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (the "b/p" sound), together forming the syllable "ggib" as pronounced in Korean. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) and was added to Unicode in version 2.0 as part of the modern Korean writing system's standard encoding, allowing for the digital representation of this specific syllable without requiring separate composition of its individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+B08D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggib |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "끼" U+B07C Hangul Syllable Ggi "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 낍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 낍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEB 0x82 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xB08D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000B08D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ub08d |