U+AF22 "꼢" Hangul Syllable Ggyebs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꼢
U+AF22 "꼢" Hangul Syllable Ggyebs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the phonetic sound "ggyeobs" or "gkyeobs." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok, representing a tense "gg" sound), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye, pronounced like "ye" in "yes"), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (bieup and siot together, creating the complex final sound "bs"). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible combinations of Korean letters according to the standard Jamo ordering, and is used in written Korean to represent a specific syllable that may appear in words or names, though it is relatively uncommon compared to more frequent syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF22 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf22 |