U+AF21 "꼡" Hangul Syllable Ggyeb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꼡
U+AF21 "꼡" Hangul Syllable Ggyeb is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system of Korea, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense velar plosive), the medial vowel "ye", and the final consonant "b". This specific syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Hangul alphabet’s initial, medial, and final components using a systematic algorithm. Though "꼡" is a valid and well formed syllable in the Hangul orthographic system, it is not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary, as it lacks a standardized lexical representation in everyday language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF21 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf21 |