U+AFB5 "꾵" Hangul Syllable Ggyot Unicode Character
U+AFB5 "꾵" Hangul Syllable Ggyot is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggwot" or "ggwot" depending on regional phonetics. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "꼬" (a tense version of the basic "g" sound), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and the final consonant "ㅌ" (t), yielding a single character that encodes a phonetic syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to support the modern Korean alphabet by providing individual code points for all possible syllable combinations, allowing efficient text processing and display. As a less commonly used syllable, "꾵" may appear in specialized vocabulary or transcriptions of foreign words, but it remains a valid and necessary part of the complete Hangul typographic repertoire.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFB5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggyot |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꾵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꾵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBE 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafb5 |