U+AFBB "꾻" Hangul Syllable Ggugs Unicode Character
U+AFBB "꾻" Hangul Syllable Ggugs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggugs" as part of the standard syllabic block arrangement. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense or double consonant version of "ㄱ" or g/k), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㄳ" (a cluster of "ㄱ" and "ㅅ" pronounced as a tense /k̚/). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables in a systematic order based on their initial, medial, and final components. As a relatively uncommon syllable, it is used in specific Korean words and names, primarily functioning as a visual and typographic unit in digital text, enabling accurate representation of the Korean language across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFBB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggugs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFBB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFBB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafbb |