U+AFC4 "꿄" Hangul Syllable Gguls Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AFC4 "꿄" Hangul Syllable Gguls is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄲ” (a tensed ‘g’ sound), the medial vowel “ㅜ” (a ‘u’ sound), and the final consonant “ㄹㅅ” (a double final pronounced as an ‘l’ followed by an ‘s’ or ‘t’ sound depending on context). This syllable falls within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, specifically in the range designated for syllables formed from the character “꿀” (honey) with added consonant endings, where it functions as a valid but rare or archaic orthographic form in Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+AFC4
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gguls
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "꾸" U+AFB8 Hangul Syllable Ggu
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꿄
HTML Hex Encoding 꿄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBF 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAFC4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AFC4
C/C++/Java Escape \uafc4

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