U+AFF0 "꿰" Hangul Syllable Ggwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꿰
U+AFF0 "꿰" Hangul Syllable Ggwe is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ggwe" which is a tensed, or reinforced, pronunciation of the syllable "gwe" with the consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok) and the vowel "ㅞ" (we). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters in alphabetical order, and it is used in the Korean language for writing words that require this specific tensed syllable, such as in the verb "꿰다" (ggweda), meaning "to string" or "to thread."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFF0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄁ" U+1101 Hangul Choseong Ssangkiyeok "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFF0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFF0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaff0 |