U+B2CA "닊" Hangul Syllable Nigg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+B2CA "닊" Hangul Syllable Nigg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "nigg" (니그). It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄂ (n), the medial vowel ᅵ (i), and the final consonant ᄀ (g), all encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables essential for representing Korean text without dynamic joiners. While it is a valid character in the standard Unicode repertoire, it is relatively rare in actual Korean vocabulary, as most native Korean words and loanwords do not commonly utilize syllables ending in "-igg" with that specific vowel-consonant combination.

General Properties

Code Point U+B2CA
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Nigg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "니" U+B2C8 Hangul Syllable Ni
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 닊
HTML Hex Encoding 닊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEB 0x8B 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xB2CA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000B2CA
C/C++/Java Escape \ub2ca

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