U+AF63 "꽣" Hangul Syllable Ggwah Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF63 "꽣" Hangul Syllable Ggwah is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "ggwah," formed by the initial consonant 쌍기역 (ssanggiyeok, a double "g/k" sound) and the medial vowel ㅘ (wa), with no final consonant. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in modern Korean writing to denote a specific phonetic unit within the Korean alphabet, Hangeul, and is encoded as a single codepoint for efficient text processing and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF63
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwah
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꽣
HTML Hex Encoding 꽣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBD 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF63
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF63
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf63

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter