U+AF0C "꼌" Hangul Syllable Ggyeok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꼌
U+AF0C "꼌" Hangul Syllable Ggyeok is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggyeok" with a tensed initial consonant. It functions as a single grapheme in digital text, formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok) and the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), combined with the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks used in Korean, and it is primarily utilized in written Korean for words or syllables that require this specific sound, though its actual frequency in common text is relatively low compared to more basic syllable combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF0C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf0c |