U+AF68 "꽨" Hangul Syllable Ggwaen Unicode Character
U+AF68 "꽨" Hangul Syllable Ggwaen is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic syllable "ggwaen," combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double "g" sound) with the medial vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong pronounced like "wae") and the final consonant "ㄴ" (an "n" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. In actual Korean usage, "꽨" is a rare and infrequently used syllable, but it demonstrates the systematic and logical structure of Hangul orthography, where each syllable is composed of individual jamo characters. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for text processing, storage, and display of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF68 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwaen |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf68 |