U+AF96 "꾖" Hangul Syllable Ggoej Unicode Character
U+AF96 "꾖" Hangul Syllable Ggoej is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggoej" which combines the initial consonant "gg" (a double, tensed version of "g"), the medial vowel "oe" (a rounded front vowel), and the final consonant "j" (the letter "j" as a syllabic coda). This character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block within the range U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which contains the complete set of modern and historical Hangul syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final components. As a typographic unit, it enables efficient digital representation and display of Korean text without requiring separate combination of its constituent jamo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF96 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf96 |