U+AFE8 "꿨" Hangul Syllable Ggweoss Unicode Character
U+AFE8 "꿨" Hangul Syllable Ggweoss is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ggweoss," formed from the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssang giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficient text processing. It is used in modern Korean writing to represent a specific syllable that may appear in vocabulary or proper names, though it is relatively uncommon compared to more frequent syllables. The character's inclusion follows the standard Unicode Hangul syllabary ordering, which arranges syllables systematically by their initial, medial, and final components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFE8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggweoss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafe8 |