U+AF92 "꾒" Hangul Syllable Ggoebs Unicode Character
U+AF92 "꾒" Hangul Syllable Ggoebs is a precomposed Hangul syllable in the Unicode standard, representing the Korean sound "ggoebs." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense "gg" sound), the vowel "ㅚ" (a single rounded diphthong pronounced "oe" or "we"), and the final consonant "ㅂㅅ" (a complex coda "bs," pronounced as a tense "p" sound, typically rendered as "bs" in Romanization). This syllable is a part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants using a standardized algorithm. In modern Korean usage, the syllable "꾒" is exceedingly rare and appears almost exclusively in specialized linguistic contexts or historical texts, as it does not form part of common everyday vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures accurate digital representation for scholarly purposes, such as transcription of Middle Korean or dialectal forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF92 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF92 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF92 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf92 |