U+AF41 "꽁" Hangul Syllable Ggong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽁
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 |