U+AF42 "꽂" Hangul Syllable Ggoj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽂
U+AF42 "꽂" Hangul Syllable Ggoj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "ggoj" as it would appear in the middle or end of a word. This syllable is formed from the initial consonant ᄁ (a double, tense "g" or "kk"), the vowel ㅗ ("o"), and the final consonant ㅈ ("j"), and it is used in the Korean writing system for both the Korean language and the Korean alphabet. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it allows for efficient text encoding and display of this specific phonetic combination without requiring separate composition of its component jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF42 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf42 |