U+AF80 "꾀" Hangul Syllable Ggoe Unicode Character
U+AF80 "꾀" Hangul Syllable Ggoe is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggoe" as a tensed consonant combined with the vowel "oe". It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which codifies all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants into single character codes for efficient text processing. This specific syllable is formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a doubled or tense "g"), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (a single rounded vowel sound like "we" in English), and has no final consonant. In Korean, "꾀" is used in words such as "꾀다" meaning "to tempt" or "to lure," and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper representation and rendering of Korean text in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF80 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok "ᅬ" U+116C Hangul Jungseong Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf80 |