U+AF6E "꽮" Hangul Syllable Ggwaelm Unicode Character
U+AF6E "꽮" Hangul Syllable Ggwaelm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggwaelm" as it would appear in a word. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes syllables formed by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants, all arranged in a systematic grid. Specifically, this character is composed of an initial consonant "ㄲ" (kk), a medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and a final consonant "ㄻ" (lm), following the standard rules of Hangul orthography. As a unified glyph, it occupies a single code point for efficient text processing and display, though its actual usage in modern Korean is extremely rare and it is not considered a common or standard syllable in everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF6E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwaelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF6E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF6E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf6e |