U+AF58 "꽘" Hangul Syllable Ggwam Unicode Character
U+AF58 "꽘" Hangul Syllable Ggwam is a single composite glyph representing a syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㄲ” (a tense, doubled version of the basic consonant “ㄱ” representing a hard ‘g’ or ‘kk’ sound) with the medial vowel “ㅘ” (the diphthong ‘wa’) and the final consonant “ㅁ” (the nasal ‘m’). This syllable, pronounced approximately as “ggwam” in the Revised Romanization system, belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) within the Unicode Standard, which encodes precomposed syllabic forms to facilitate efficient digital representation of Korean text. While not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, “꽘” may appear in specific linguistic contexts, such as transliterations of foreign words or in certain dialectal expressions, though its usage is relatively rare compared to more frequent syllables in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf58 |