U+AFD8 "꿘" Hangul Syllable Ggweon Unicode Character
U+AFD8 "꿘" Hangul Syllable Ggweon is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the sound "ggweon" which combines the initial consonant "gg" (a tense version of "g") with the medial vowel "weo" and the final consonant "n." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllable combinations formed from the Korean alphabet's leading consonants, medial vowels, and trailing consonants. The character "꿘" can be used in written Korean for specific vocabulary or grammatical constructions, though its frequency in modern text is relatively low compared to more common syllables. By encoding it as a single precomposed unit, Unicode enables efficient text processing and display for languages that rely on this syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFD8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggweon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "꿔" U+AFD4 Hangul Syllable Ggweo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafd8 |