U+AF66 "꽦" Hangul Syllable Ggwaegg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽦
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 |