U+AF1C "꼜" Hangul Syllable Ggyels Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF1C "꼜" Hangul Syllable Ggyels is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (ㄲ), the medial vowel "ye" (ㅖ), and the final consonant "ls" (ㄽ), which together form the sound "ggyeols." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a system that encodes the modern and ancient syllables of the Korean writing system as single code points for efficient text storage and processing. While "꼜" is a valid syllable in the Hangul orthography, it is rare in everyday modern Korean usage, appearing more as a theoretical construct in syllabary charts or in specialized linguistic contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF1C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyels
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "꼐" U+AF10 Hangul Syllable Ggye
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꼜
HTML Hex Encoding 꼜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBC 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF1C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF1C
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf1c

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