U+AF72 "꽲" Hangul Syllable Ggwaelp Unicode Character
U+AF72 "꽲" Hangul Syllable Ggwaelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing a phonological unit pronounced similarly to "ggwaelp" in Korean, where the initial consonant is a tense, unaspirated velar stop (double "g"), followed by the glide "w" and the vowel "ae", and ending with the final consonant "lp". This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants (jamo) as single characters, enabling efficient text processing for the Korean writing system. As a precomposed form, "꽲" is used in standard Korean orthography and can be found in various modern texts, though it represents a relatively uncommon syllable in everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF72 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwaelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf72 |