U+AF60 "꽠" Hangul Syllable Ggwak Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽠
U+AF60 "꽠" Hangul Syllable Ggwak is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the sound "ggwak," formed by combining the initial consonant "꽈" (a tense double consonant starting with 'gg'), the vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (k). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllables in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet. In practical usage, the syllable "꽠" appears in limited contexts, often in onomatopoeic words or loanword transcriptions, but it is relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF60 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf60 |