U+AF57 "꽗" Hangul Syllable Ggwalh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽗
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 |