U+AF57 "꽗" Hangul Syllable Ggwalh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF57 "꽗" Hangul Syllable Ggwalh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggwalh" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double "g/k" sound), the vowel "ㅘ" (the diphthong "wa"), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (the cluster "lh"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables that can be formed from the Korean alphabet according to the standard syllabification rules outlined in the Hunminjeongeum.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF57
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwalh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꽗
HTML Hex Encoding 꽗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBD 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF57
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF57
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf57

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