U+AFBE "꾾" Hangul Syllable Ggunh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter