U+B08F "낏" Hangul Syllable Ggis Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B08F "낏" Hangul Syllable Ggis is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "ggis," formed by the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense or double 'kk/g'), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (a long 'ee/i' sound), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (an 's/t' sound). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible combinations of Korean letters arranged in syllable blocks, a system that revolutionized Korean literacy after its creation in the 15th century. In modern Korean, this syllable is rarely used in common vocabulary but can appear in transliterations, technical linguistic contexts, or as a part of derived or onomatopoeic words.

General Properties

Code Point U+B08F
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggis
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 낏
HTML Hex Encoding 낏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x82 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB08F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B08F
C/C++/Java Escape \ub08f

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