U+AF56 "꽖" Hangul Syllable Ggwalp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽖
U+AF56 "꽖" Hangul Syllable Ggwalp is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "ggwalp," formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssang giyeok, a tense 'gg' sound), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa, a diphthong combining 'o' and 'a'), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup, a bilabial 'p' in the coda position). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean writing system. Though rarely encountered in modern Korean vocabulary, it mathematically exists as a valid phonetic combination within the language's orthographic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF56 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwalp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf56 |