U+D08B "킋" Hangul Syllable Kyigs Unicode Character
U+D08B "킋" Hangul Syllable Kyigs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllabary used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "kyi" and the final consonant "gs". This specific syllable is formed from the Hangul consonants and vowels that map to a single encoded block in Unicode's Hangul Syllables range, which allows for efficient text processing and display of Korean script. Though it exists as a valid character in the Unicode standard, "킋" is extremely rare in contemporary Korean usage, as it does not correspond to a common word or morpheme in the Korean lexicon. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that the entire theoretical set of 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables is represented for completeness, supporting historical, linguistic, or specialized technical contexts where such a syllable might appear.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D08B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyigs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "킈" U+D088 Hangul Syllable Kyi "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 킋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 킋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x82 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD08B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D08B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud08b |