U+AFA9 "꾩" Hangul Syllable Ggyolt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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