U+AF87 "꾇" Hangul Syllable Ggoed Unicode Character
U+AF87 "꾇" Hangul Syllable Ggoed is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggoed". It is constructed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a doubled or tense "ㄱ" sound), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (which represents the diphthong "oe"), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (the sound "d" or "t" depending on its positional pronunciation). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo characters in a single coded character, allowing efficient text processing for the Korean language. As a relatively rare or less common syllable in everyday Korean usage, "꾇" may appear in specialized vocabulary or in the spelling of certain loanwords or names, but it remains an essential element of the comprehensive Unicode coverage designed to support full representation of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF87 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoed |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf87 |