U+AFBE "꾾" Hangul Syllable Ggunh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾾
U+AFBE "꾾" Hangul Syllable Ggunh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggunh" where the initial consonant is the tense velar plosive "kk", the medial vowel is "u", and the final consonant is the aspirated velar nasal "nh". This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations formed from Korean jamo letters, and it is used in written Korean to represent a specific lexical or grammatical syllable. While not a commonly occurring syllable in everyday vocabulary, it exemplifies the systematic and orderly nature of the Hangul writing system, where each syllable is assigned a unique code point for digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFBE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggunh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFBE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafbe |