U+AF8B "꾋" Hangul Syllable Ggoelb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾋
U+AF8B "꾋" Hangul Syllable Ggoelb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "kk" (ㄲ), the medial vowel "oe" (ㅚ), and the final consonant "lb" (ㄼ), forming the sound "ggoelb." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks of Korean writing. While not common in everyday vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic structure of Hangul, where letters are stacked into square-shaped syllables to represent morphemes or words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF8B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoelb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF8B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF8B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf8b |