U+AFCD "꿍" Hangul Syllable Ggung Unicode Character
U+AFCD "꿍" Hangul Syllable Ggung is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggung." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double 'g' sound), the vowel "ㅜ" (the 'u' vowel), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (the velar nasal 'ng' sound, serving as a syllable-final placeholder or nasal). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a collection of over 11,000 precomposed syllables that allow Korean text to be encoded efficiently. While it is a valid and defined character, "꿍" is a rare or obscure syllable in contemporary Korean, appearing primarily in onomatopoeia, jargon, or historical contexts rather than in common vocabulary. This specificity highlights how Unicode thoroughly encodes the entire theoretical set of Korean syllable combinations, even those with limited modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFCD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggung |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFCD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafcd |