U+AF09 "꼉" Hangul Syllable Ggyeong Unicode Character
U+AF09 "꼉" Hangul Syllable Ggyeong is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "ggyeong." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense or doubled "g" sound), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng), which together create a single syllabic block. This character is part of the vast Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters, and it is used in Korean text to represent specific lexical items or grammatical forms where the tense initial consonant and the "yeong" sound occur. Like all Unicode Hangul syllables, "꼉" is designed to support the digital representation and processing of the Korean language in computing systems worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF09 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf09 |