U+AFB9 "꾹" Hangul Syllable Ggug Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾹
U+AFB9 "꾹" Hangul Syllable Ggug is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, representing the sound pronounced as a tense, fortis "gg" followed by the vowel "u" and a final "g" consonant, equivalent to the phonetic transcription [k͈uk]. It is formed in Unicode as a single coded character rather than as a sequence of separate jamo letters, facilitating consistent text processing and display in Korean digital environments. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block and is used in standard Korean writing to denote words or morphemes, such as in the verb "꾹꾹" meaning to press or poke repeatedly.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFB9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggug |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꾸" U+AFB8 Hangul Syllable Ggu "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafb9 |