U+AFB4 "꾴" Hangul Syllable Ggyok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꾴
U+AFB4 "꾴" Hangul Syllable Ggyok is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing the Korean sound "ggyok" which consists of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense double consonant) combined with the vowel "yo" and the final consonant "k." It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, where all possible combinations of lead consonants, medial vowels, and tail consonants are encoded as single characters for efficient processing. This particular syllable is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary but is grammatically valid and may appear in specialized contexts such as linguistic transcription or certain compound words, reflecting the systematic structure of the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFB4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafb4 |