U+AFA9 "꾩" Hangul Syllable Ggyolt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾩
U+AFA9 "꾩" Hangul Syllable Ggyolt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound “ggyeolt,” formed by combining the initial consonant “ㄲ” (a tense “g” sound) with the medial vowel “ㅕ” (yeo) and the final consonant cluster “ㄾ” (lt). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character allows for efficient digital representation of Korean text where syllables are encoded as single code points rather than sequences of individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFA9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyolt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafa9 |