U+AFB1 "꾱" Hangul Syllable Ggyong Unicode Character
U+AFB1 "꾱" Hangul Syllable Ggyong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggyong" which begins with the tense or reinforced consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok) and is followed by the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo) and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all logically possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in the Korean language for writing specific words where this particular tense initial and vowel-final combination occurs, such as in certain native Korean expressions or loanword adaptations. Its structure demonstrates how Unicode efficiently maps the syllabic nature of Hangul, where individual jamo (letters) are combined into a single code point for practical text processing and digital representation of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFB1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyong |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꾜" U+AF9C Hangul Syllable Ggyo "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFB1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafb1 |