U+AF27 "꼧" Hangul Syllable Ggyec Unicode Character
U+AF27 "꼧" Hangul Syllable Ggyec is a single syllable block in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggyec" which is a tensed and palatalized variant of the syllable "gyeok." It is composed of the initial consonant character "ㄲ" (a double or tense "g") combined with the medial vowel "ㅖ" (the diphthong "ye") and the final consonant "ᆨ" (the "k" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing and display for the Korean language. While not among the most commonly used syllables in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it appears in certain words and transcriptions, contributing to the comprehensive coverage of possible sound combinations in Hangul.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF27 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF27 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf27 |