U+AFB8 "꾸" Hangul Syllable Ggu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾸
U+AFB8 "꾸" Hangul Syllable Ggu is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggu" as in the English word "good." It is formed from the initial consonant ᄁ (the doubled or tense "g" sound in Korean) and the vowel ᅮ (the long "u" sound, similar to the "oo" in "moon"), combined into a single encoded character for efficient text processing. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which covers all possible CV (consonant-vowel) and CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) combinations in the Korean script, and "꾸" is commonly used in words such as 꾸미다 (to decorate) or 꾸준히 (steadily).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFB8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggu |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok "ᅮ" U+116E Hangul Jungseong U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafb8 |