U+AFC1 "꿁" Hangul Syllable Ggulg Unicode Character
U+AFC1 "꿁" Hangul Syllable Ggulg is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a modern composite representing a specific syllabic form in the Korean writing system. It is constructed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed double consonant pronounced as a strong "gg"), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (the vowel "u"), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (a double final consonant representing a "lg" sound). Visually, the character is a square block that combines these three Jamo components into a single, standardized grapheme used in both North and South Korea for typing and encoding text. Its practical occurrence in the Korean language is rare, as it represents a phonetically complex syllable that appears infrequently in modern vocabulary, but it serves as a complete and valid unit within the Unicode standard for digital representation of Hangul.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFC1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggulg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFC1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafc1 |