U+AF81 "꾁" Hangul Syllable Ggoeg Unicode Character
U+AF81 "꾁" Hangul Syllable Ggoeg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggoeg." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense or double 'g' sound) with the vowel "ㅚ" (the diphthong 'oe') and the final consonant "ㄱ" (the 'g' or 'k' sound), resulting in a single, distinct character block. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of initial and final consonants with vowels for the Korean alphabet. While not one of the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean text, it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul script, where characters are methodically composed to represent every phonetically valid syllable in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF81 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꾀" U+AF80 Hangul Syllable Ggoe "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF81 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf81 |