U+AF66 "꽦" Hangul Syllable Ggwaegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF66 "꽦" Hangul Syllable Ggwaegg is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ggwaegg", formed from the initial consonant 쌍기역 (ㅆ, a double "g/k" sound), the medial vowel 왜 (ㅙ, a complex vowel pronounced "wae"), and the final consonant 기역 (ㄱ, "g/k"). This syllable, though not common in modern standard Korean vocabulary, is part of the larger Hangul syllabary block in Unicode, which encodes all logically possible combinations of Korean jamo characters to support comprehensive text representation. Its inclusion ensures consistent rendering and processing of Korean script in digital environments, even for rare or historical syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF66
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwaegg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "꽤" U+AF64 Hangul Syllable Ggwae
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꽦
HTML Hex Encoding 꽦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBD 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF66
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF66
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf66

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