U+AFE9 "꿩" Hangul Syllable Ggweong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꿩
U+AFE9 "꿩" Hangul Syllable Ggweong is a precomposed syllable from the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggweong" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense, double kk) and the vowel "ㅟ" (wi) followed by the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng). In modern Korean, this syllable is used as a noun meaning "pheasant," a bird found widely in East Asia. It is encoded in Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which was added in version 2.0 of the standard to efficiently represent all possible syllabic blocks formed by Korean letters without requiring separate composition or rendering logic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFE9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggweong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uafe9 |