U+AF8D "꾍" Hangul Syllable Ggoelt Unicode Character
U+AF8D "꾍" Hangul Syllable Ggoelt is a single Hangul syllable in the Unicode Standard, representing a specific phonetic combination within the Korean writing system. This syllable is formed by the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense double consonant representing a "gg" sound), the vowel " ㅚ" (a vowel pronounced like "oe" or "we"), and the final consonant "ㄾ" (a double final consonant cluster of "ㄹ" and "ㅌ," which sounds like "lt"). As a precomposed syllable in Unicode, it is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a range that encodes the thousands of possible syllable blocks in modern Hangul according to the patterns of Korean phonology. This character is used in the Korean language to represent a particular syllable that might appear in certain words, although it is among the less common syllables in everyday modern Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AF8D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggoelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAF8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AF8D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaf8d |