U+AF8C "꾌" Hangul Syllable Ggoels Unicode Character
U+AF8C "꾌" Hangul Syllable Ggoels is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "ggoels." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "꼬" (a tense version of "g") with the medial vowel "ㅚ" (transcribed as "oe") and the final consonant "ㄹ" (an "l" sound that becomes the syllable-final "ls"). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters in a single code point for efficient text processing and display. While this particular syllable is rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, its inclusion in Unicode ensures that the full range of theoretical Hangul syllables can be correctly represented and rendered in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF8C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf8c |