U+AF41 "꽁" Hangul Syllable Ggong Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF41 "꽁" Hangul Syllable Ggong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggong" as a single typographic unit. This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㄲ (ssang giyeok), the medial vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), and it falls within the Unicode block for Hangul Syllables, which encodes all possible syllables in the Korean writing system. In the Korean language, "꽁" can appear in various words and contexts, such as in informal speech or onomatopoeic expressions, though it is not among the most common syllables. Its codepoint is allocated in the range U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which systematically covers all 11,172 theoretical Hangul syllables in alphabetical order.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF41
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggong
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꽁
HTML Hex Encoding 꽁
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBD 0x81
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF41
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF41
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf41

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