U+AF08 "꼈" Hangul Syllable Ggyeoss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꼈
U+AF08 "꼈" Hangul Syllable Ggyeoss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggyeoss". It is formed from the initial consonant “ㄲ” (the double consonant version of “ㄱ”), the medial vowel “ㅖ” (a diphthong beginning with “ㅣ” and moving to “ㅔ”), and the final consonant “ㅆ” (the double “ㅅ” sound known as ssang shiot). As a relatively rare syllable, “꼈” does not appear often in everyday Korean vocabulary but is valid within the Unicode standard’s comprehensive block for Hangul syllables, which encodes all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo (letters) to ensure full digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeoss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf08 |