U+AF1C "꼜" Hangul Syllable Ggyels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꼜
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 |