U+AF54 "꽔" Hangul Syllable Ggwals Unicode Character
U+AF54 "꽔" Hangul Syllable Ggwals is a specific typographic glyph within the modern Hangul syllable block of Unicode, representing the Korean syllable pronounced roughly as "ggwals." This syllable is composed of the initial consonant cluster "ㄲ" (a tensed double letter representing the sound "gg"), the medial vowel "ᅪ" (a combination of "ㅗ" and "ㅏ" to form the "wa" sound), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (the liquid "l" sound), ending with the appended "ㅅ" (the "s" sound) to create a complex coda. As part of the Hangul writing system, this character is used in the Korean language for representing words or phonetic segments that require this particular combination of sounds, though it is not a commonly used syllable. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that text containing this syllable can be accurately encoded, displayed, and processed across digital platforms globally.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF54 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwals |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf54 |