U+AF76 "꽶" Hangul Syllable Ggwaebs Unicode Character
U+AF76 "꽶" Hangul Syllable Ggwaebs is a specific Korean syllable formed by combining the initial consonant 쌍기역 (ssanggiyeok, a double 'g' sound), the medial vowel 왜 (wae), and the final consonant 비읍 (bieup), which is pronounced as a 'b' sound at the end of a syllable. This character is part of the modern Hangul syllabary and follows the standard Unicode encoding for Korean, where each syllable block is assigned a unique code point. "꽶" is typically used in Korean texts to represent a distinct phonetic unit, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary. Its composition reflects the systematic structure of Hangul, where individual jamo (letters) are combined into syllabic blocks that visually and phonetically represent the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF76 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwaebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF76 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf76 |