U+AF34 "꼴" Hangul Syllable Ggol Unicode Character
U+AF34 "꼴" Hangul Syllable Ggol is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double "k" sound) and the medial vowel "ㅗ" (the mid-back rounded "o" sound), followed by the final consonant "ㄹ" (an "l" or "r" sound). This character is used in modern Korean to form words such as "꼴" which can mean "shape," "form," or "appearance" depending on context, and it also appears in colloquial expressions like "꼴 좋다" (meaning "serves you right" or "looks good on you"). In Unicode encoding, this syllable falls within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which was designed to efficiently represent the roughly 11,172 possible precomposed syllables of the Korean language by combining initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF34 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggol |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꼬" U+AF2C Hangul Syllable Ggo "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF34 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF34 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf34 |