U+AF59 "꽙" Hangul Syllable Ggwab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽙
U+AF59 "꽙" Hangul Syllable Ggwab is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic cluster "ggwab" in the Korean writing system. It is formed from the initial consonant ᄁ (ssang giyeok, a tense "g" sound), the medial vowel ᅪ (wa, a diphthong combining "o" and "a"), and the final consonant ᄇ (bieup, a "b" sound). This syllable is used in written Korean for specific vocabulary, though it is relatively rare compared to more common syllables, and its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text can accurately represent all Standard Korean syllables as defined in modern typographic conventions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF59 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwab |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf59 |