U+AFCE "꿎" Hangul Syllable Gguj Unicode Character
U+AFCE "꿎" Hangul Syllable Gguj is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gguj" formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g/k"), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing, eliminating the need to combine individual jamo components. It is used primarily in written Korean, including in words or names, though it is relatively rare compared to more common syllables. The character's name, "Hangul Syllable Gguj," follows the standard Unicode naming convention for Korean syllables, where each syllable is identified by its phonetic transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFCE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gguj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFCE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafce |