U+AFAD "꾭" Hangul Syllable Ggyob Unicode Character
U+AFAD "꾭" Hangul Syllable Ggyob is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄲ” (a tensed or double “g” sound), the vowel “ㅛ” (the “yo” sound), and the final consonant “ㅂ” (the “b” sound), thus being read as "ggyob" in standard Romanization. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to facilitate efficient digital representation of Korean text by providing precomposed forms for all possible syllable combinations. While "꾭" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it does not commonly appear in everyday modern Korean vocabulary and is more likely to be encountered in specialized or historical contexts rather than in common words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFAD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyob |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFAD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFAD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafad |