U+AF38 "꼸" Hangul Syllable Ggols Unicode Character
U+AF38 "꼸" Hangul Syllable Ggols is a precomposed syllabic block in the Korean Hangul script, specifically formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense or doubled 'g' sound), the medial vowel "ㅗ" (the 'o' sound as in 'go'), and the final consonant cluster "ㄹㅅ" (which together create the final 'ls' sound). As part of the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, this character represents a single sound unit in the Korean language, allowing for efficient digital representation of the complex syllable "꼸" without the need to combine individual jamo characters. While not a common or frequently used syllable in modern Korean text, it exists within the complete set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables that Unicode supports for thorough linguistic encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggols |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꼬" U+AF2C Hangul Syllable Ggo "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf38 |