U+AFF1 "꿱" Hangul Syllable Ggweg Unicode Character
U+AFF1 "꿱" Hangul Syllable Ggweg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense, unaspirated sound similar to the ‘k’ in "skate"), the vowel "we" (a diphthong pronounced like the "we" in "wet"), and the final consonant "g" (the ‘k’ sound at the end of a syllable, like in "back"). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was added to support the systematic encoding of all possible Korean syllable blocks formed by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants. In practical usage, this specific syllable is rare in standard Korean vocabulary, but it can appear in transliterated words, dialectal speech, or creative contexts where its distinct sound is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFF1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggweg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꿰" U+AFF0 Hangul Syllable Ggwe "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFF1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFF1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaff1 |