U+AF74 "꽴" Hangul Syllable Ggwaem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꽴
U+AF74 "꽴" Hangul Syllable Ggwaem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system representing the sound "ggwaem," formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double 'g/k' sound), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (which combines 'o' and 'ae' into a single diphthong sound), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (an 'm' sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters to facilitate digital text processing and display. As a relatively uncommon syllable, it would most typically be found in specialized vocabulary, transcriptions of foreign words, or onomatopoeic expressions in the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF74 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwaem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf74 |