U+AFE6 "꿦" Hangul Syllable Ggweobs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AFE6 "꿦" Hangul Syllable Ggweobs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "ggweobs" which combines the initial consonant "gg" (a tense double "g" sound), the medial vowel "weo" (a rounded front vowel), and the final consonant "bs" (a double consonant cluster). It is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllables in a single, contiguous range for efficient text processing. This character was added to Unicode as part of the initial Hangul syllable encoding in version 2.0, and it is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonetic unit, though it is relatively rare in everyday language.

General Properties

Code Point U+AFE6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggweobs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꿦
HTML Hex Encoding 꿦
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBF 0xA6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAFE6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AFE6
C/C++/Java Escape \uafe6

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