U+AF0A "꼊" Hangul Syllable Ggyeoj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF0A "꼊" Hangul Syllable Ggyeoj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, which is used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double "g" or "kk" sound), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (a "yeo" sound similar to the English "yuh"), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (a "j" or soft "ch" sound). This syllable appears in the Unicode Standard’s Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean lead consonants, vowels, and tail consonants for electronic text representation, enabling accurate digital rendering and processing of the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF0A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyeoj
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
"ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꼊
HTML Hex Encoding 꼊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBC 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF0A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF0A
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf0a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter