U+B08F "낏" Hangul Syllable Ggis Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
낏
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 |