U+AFB1 "" Hangul Syllable Ggyong Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+AFB1 "" Hangul Syllable Ggyong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggyong" which begins with the tense or reinforced consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok) and is followed by the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo) and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all logically possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in the Korean language for writing specific words where this particular tense initial and vowel-final combination occurs, such as in certain native Korean expressions or loanword adaptations. Its structure demonstrates how Unicode efficiently maps the syllabic nature of Hangul, where individual jamo (letters) are combined into a single code point for practical text processing and digital representation of the language.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
꾱
HTML Hex Encoding
꾱
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xBE 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding
0xAFB1
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000AFB1
C/C++/Java Escape
\uafb1