U+AFAB "꾫" Hangul Syllable Ggyolh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾫
U+AFAB "꾫" Hangul Syllable Ggyolh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "gGyolh" formed by the initial consonant "꾀" (a tense "gg"), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and a complex final consonant cluster or coda "ㅀ" (lh). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 mathematically possible combinations of Korean letters in a single character for efficient text processing. While relatively rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, it illustrates the systematic and phonetically precise nature of the Hangul writing system, where each syllable block corresponds to a distinct spoken sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFAB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyolh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafab |