U+AF98 "꾘" Hangul Syllable Ggoek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾘
U+AF98 "꾘" Hangul Syllable Ggoek is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ggoek," formed from the initial consonant ㄲ (double giyeok), the vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok). It is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the modern Korean alphabet using a systematic algorithmic arrangement. This character is used in written Korean text and falls within the range of syllables that include complex consonant clusters and vowel digraphs, contributing to the representation of sounds that are distinct in the Korean phonetic system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF98 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf98 |