U+B2CA "닊" Hangul Syllable Nigg Unicode Character
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 |