U+AF0B "꼋" Hangul Syllable Ggyeoc Unicode Character
U+AF0B "꼋" Hangul Syllable Ggyeoc is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense, doubled version of the Korean consonant for "g") and the vowel "yeo" (similar to the "yo" in "yonder" but with an additional medial "o" sound), culminating in a final consonant "k" (the Korean "kiyeok" sound). This syllable is part of the modern Korean writing system, where such precomposed characters are encoded individually in Unicode to facilitate efficient text processing and display. In practical usage, "꼋" is an extremely rare or obsolete syllable that appears primarily in historical texts, specialized linguistic contexts, or sometimes in dialectal transcriptions, rather than in everyday contemporary Korean writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF0B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeoc |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf0b |