U+AF5D "꽝" Hangul Syllable Ggwang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽝
U+AF5D "꽝" Hangul Syllable Ggwang is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggwang" where the initial consonant is a tense, double "g" (ㄲ) followed by the vowel "wa" (ㅘ) and the final consonant "ng" (ㅇ). Used in Korean writing, this syllable often appears in onomatopoeic contexts, such as mimicking a loud banging, exploding, or crashing sound, and it can also be found in brand names or playful expressions. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character to facilitate efficient text processing and display by combining its constituent jamo (letters) into one unified glyph.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF5D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF5D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf5d |