U+AFBF "꾿" Hangul Syllable Ggud Unicode Character
U+AFBF "꾿" Hangul Syllable Ggud is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, specifically representing the consonant cluster "gg" (ㄲ) followed by the vowel "u" (ㅜ) and the final consonant "d" (ㄷ). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes complete syllable forms for greater efficiency in digital text rather than using basic jamo letters that would require combination. As with other U+AC00 range syllables, its glyph is a single, precomposed letter used in written Korean and can appear in lexicographic references or specialized linguistic materials, though it is not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary. The character is correctly encoded for processing in modern computing systems, ensuring proper display and sorting when handling Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFBF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggud |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFBF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFBF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafbf |