U+AFAB "꾫" Hangul Syllable Ggyolh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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