U+AFF9 "꿹" Hangul Syllable Ggwelg Unicode Character
U+AFF9 "꿹" Hangul Syllable Ggwelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul block, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (double giyeok), the medial vowel "we" (which is a diphthong of "u" and "e"), and the final consonant "lg" (rieul-giyeok). This character was added to Unicode as part of the 11,172 precomposed Hangul syllables in version 2.0, created to support the complete set of valid syllable blocks in the Korean writing system. In practice, 꿹 is an extremely rare syllable that does not commonly appear in standard Korean vocabulary, and it is often used only in highly specific contexts such as archaic transcriptions, linguistic analysis, or as a theoretical construct demonstrating the systematic nature of Hangul syllabary encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFF9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwelg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaff9 |