U+AF5F "꽟" Hangul Syllable Ggwac Unicode Character
U+AF5F "꽟" Hangul Syllable Ggwac is a character from the Hangul script, the modern Korean alphabet, representing the syllable "ggwac" which is composed of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense velar plosive), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (formed by combining the basic vowels "ㅗ" and "ㅏ" to produce the diphthong /wa/), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (a voiceless palatal affricate). This specific syllable is part of the comprehensive set of precomposed Hangul syllables encoded in the Unicode standard, which includes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants to facilitate efficient text processing and display for the Korean language. The character "꽟" is rarely used in modern Korean vocabulary but exemplifies the systematic nature of the Hangul writing system, where syllables are constructed phonetically from individual jamo (letters) that are grouped into blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF5F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwac |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF5F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF5F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf5f |