U+AF50 "꽐" Hangul Syllable Ggwal Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF50 "꽐" Hangul Syllable Ggwal is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound “ggwal.” It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㄲ (ssanggiyeok, a tensed or double ‘g/k’ sound), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa, a diphthong of ‘o’ and ‘a’), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul, an ‘l’ or ‘r’ sound). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in written Korean to denote a specific morpheme or lexical item, though it is relatively rare in common vocabulary and may appear in onomatopoeia, loanwords, or technical terminology.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF50
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwal
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "꽈" U+AF48 Hangul Syllable Ggwa
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꽐
HTML Hex Encoding 꽐
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBD 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF50
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF50
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf50

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter