U+AF7B "꽻" Hangul Syllable Ggwaec Unicode Character
U+AF7B "꽻" Hangul Syllable Ggwaec is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed double gg sound) with the vowel "ㅙ" (a diphthong pronounced like the English "wae") and the final consonant "ㅊ" (a ch sound). This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters to support digital text representation. Its use is limited to specific lexical contexts where the syllable occurs in words or transcriptions, and it can be inputted via Unicode-compatible keyboards or converted from its constituent jamo parts through standard Korean text processing methods.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF7B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwaec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꽻 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꽻 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBD 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF7B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF7B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf7b |