U+AF5B "꽛" Hangul Syllable Ggwas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽛
U+AF5B "꽛" Hangul Syllable Ggwas is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggwas." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g/k" sound) with the vowel "ㅘ" (the diphthong "wa") and the final consonant "ㅅ" (the "s" sound). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo letters, and it is primarily used in the Korean language for written text, though it may appear infrequently in contemporary vocabulary compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF5B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwas |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf5b |