U+AF20 "꼠" Hangul Syllable Ggyem Unicode Character
U+AF20 "꼠" Hangul Syllable Ggyem is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggyem," which combines the initial consonant "gg" (a tensed version of "g") with the medial vowel "ye" and the final consonant "m." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllables by combining initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants into single character codes, facilitating efficient processing of Korean text. While "꼠" is a valid, standardized syllable in the modern Korean alphabet, it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary, as it does not form common words in Standard Korean, making it an example of a formally defined but less frequently used linguistic element.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF20 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF20 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF20 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf20 |