U+AFE5 "꿥" Hangul Syllable Ggweob Unicode Character
U+AFE5 "꿥" Hangul Syllable Ggweob is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggweob," which is formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tensed or double "g" sound) and the vowel combination "ㅝ" (weo) followed by the final consonant "ㅂ" (b). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables used to write the Korean language, and it is encoded as a single code point to simplify text processing and display, rather than requiring separate composition from individual jamo characters. Though not a common word in modern Korean, it represents a structurally valid and linguistically functional syllable within the systematic and efficient design of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFE5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggweob |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafe5 |