U+AF02 "꼂" Hangul Syllable Ggyeolp Unicode Character
U+AF02 "꼂" Hangul Syllable Ggyeolp is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense double "g" sound), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (a "yeo" sound), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (a "b/p" sound), resulting in the phonetic value "ggyeolp." This syllable belongs to the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was introduced to standardize and encode the thousands of possible Korean syllable combinations in a single contiguous range, facilitating digital text processing and display. While "꼂" is a valid, structurally defined syllable, it is not commonly used in modern Korean words and thus appears primarily in specialized or historical contexts rather than everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF02 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeolp |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "껴" U+AEF4 Hangul Syllable Ggyeo "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf02 |