U+AFA8 "꾨" Hangul Syllable Ggyols Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾨
U+AFA8 "꾨" Hangul Syllable Ggyols is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (ㄲ), the medial vowel "yo" (ㅛ), and the final consonant "ls" (ㄼ). It is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet's consonant vowel sequence. This character is used in written Korean to denote a specific syllable sound, primarily appearing in words and names, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation and text processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyols |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafa8 |