U+AFE3 "꿣" Hangul Syllable Ggweolh Unicode Character
U+AFE3 "꿣" Hangul Syllable Ggweolh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "gg" (a tense, fortis sound similar to the English 'k' but with more glottal tension), the medial vowel "weo" (a diphthong formed by combining 'w' and 'eo' as in "wok"), and the final consonant "lh" (a double-ending consonant cluster combining 'l' and 'h' that influences the syllable's pronunciation with a subtle breath or aspiration at its close). This syllable is part of the extensive Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable blocks according to the standard phonological rules of the language, and it is used in written Korean to transcribe specific lexical items or loanwords that require this precise sound structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFE3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggweolh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFE3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafe3 |