U+AFB0 "꾰" Hangul Syllable Ggyoss Unicode Character
U+AFB0 "꾰" Hangul Syllable Ggyoss is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "ggyoss." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g" sound), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (a "yo" sound), and the final consonant cluster "ㅆ" (a tensed or double "s" sound), which together create a single syllabic block. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a standardized order for use in digital text. While not a commonly used syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, it serves as a valid linguistic element and demonstrates the systematic structure of the Korean writing system, where syllable blocks are built from individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFB0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyoss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFB0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafb0 |