U+AF39 "꼹" Hangul Syllable Ggolt Unicode Character
U+AF39 "꼹" Hangul Syllable Ggolt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggolt" as formed by the initial consonant ᄁ (ssanggiyeok, a tensed 'g' sound), the vowel ᅩ (o), and the final consonant ᆯ (rieul, an 'l' sound). This specific syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo in a single character for efficient text processing. While "꼹" is a valid and properly formed syllable according to Korean orthographic rules, it is considered a rare or non-lexical syllable, meaning it does not commonly appear in standard Korean vocabulary as a meaningful word, though it could theoretically be used in transliteration, informal writing, or phonetic representation of foreign sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF39 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggolt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꼹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꼹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBC 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf39 |