U+AF5A "꽚" Hangul Syllable Ggwabs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF5A "꽚" Hangul Syllable Ggwabs is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the sound "ggwabs" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssang giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (bieup plus siot). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes modern and archaic Korean syllables systematically rather than as separate vowel and consonant components. This particular syllable is used in Korean writing and is classified under the category of a lowercase letter (Lo), reflecting its role as a complete syllabic character in the Korean alphabet.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF5A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwabs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꽚
HTML Hex Encoding 꽚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBD 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF5A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF5A
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf5a

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