U+AF0F "꼏" Hangul Syllable Ggyeoh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF0F "꼏" Hangul Syllable Ggyeoh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the sound "ggyeoh," which is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense double consonant), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅎ" (h). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode and is encoded to represent a specific phonetic unit that might appear in Korean text, though it is considered rare or infrequently used in contemporary vocabulary compared to more common syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF0F
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyeoh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꼏
HTML Hex Encoding 꼏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBC 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF0F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF0F
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf0f

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