U+AF86 "꾆" Hangul Syllable Ggoenh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF86 "꾆" Hangul Syllable Ggoenh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggoenh" formed from the initial consonant ᄁ (a tensed and fortis form of the velar plosive "g/k"), the vowel ㅚ (a diphthong pronounced similarly to "we"), and the final consonant ᄒ (the aspirated "h" sound). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in the Unicode Standard, where each syllable is encoded as a single character rather than a sequence of individual jamo letters. While this specific syllable is valid according to Korean orthographic rules, it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, predominantly appearing in specialized or historical contexts, including some names or dialectical expressions.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF86
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggoenh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "꾀" U+AF80 Hangul Syllable Ggoe
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꾆
HTML Hex Encoding 꾆
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBE 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF86
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF86
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf86

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter