U+AFA6 "꾦" Hangul Syllable Ggyolm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AFA6 "꾦" Hangul Syllable Ggyolm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggyolm." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g" sound), the vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (lm). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character allows for the efficient digital representation of a specific phonetic unit in Korean, where tensed consonants and complex final clusters are common. Though not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean text, it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul script's encoding in Unicode.

General Properties

Code Point U+AFA6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggyolm
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "꾜" U+AF9C Hangul Syllable Ggyo
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꾦
HTML Hex Encoding 꾦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBE 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAFA6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AFA6
C/C++/Java Escape \uafa6

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