U+AF9A "꾚" Hangul Syllable Ggoep Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AF9A "꾚" Hangul Syllable Ggoep is a single syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggoep," which is a tense, aspirated combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a double-onset from the consonant ᄁ) and the medial vowel "oe" (ㅚ) followed by the final consonant "p" (ㅂ). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes precomposed syllables formed from combinations of initial consonants, vowels, and optional final consonants according to the modern Korean writing system. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it is a valid and phonetically distinct element of the language, used in specific words and contexts to represent a tight, emphatic pronunciation.

General Properties

Code Point U+AF9A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggoep
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
"ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꾚
HTML Hex Encoding 꾚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBE 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAF9A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AF9A
C/C++/Java Escape \uaf9a

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