U+AF62 "꽢" Hangul Syllable Ggwap Unicode Character
U+AF62 "꽢" Hangul Syllable Ggwap is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggwap" (a tensed or reinforced version of "gwap"). This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (but here functioning as the tensed ㄲ), the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅍ (p), all encoded as a single block in the Hangul Syllables range of Unicode. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable in the Korean script, it is extremely rare or nonexistent in actual Korean vocabulary, as no standard Korean word uses this particular phonetic combination. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures full coverage of theoretically possible Hangul syllables, supporting accurate text processing and display for linguistic study or orthographic completeness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF62 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwap |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF62 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf62 |