U+AFF8 "꿸" Hangul Syllable Ggwel Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AFF8 "꿸" Hangul Syllable Ggwel is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "ggwel" in the Korean writing system. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants encoded as single code points for efficient text processing. This specific syllable is formed by the initial consonant "ㄲ" (ssanggiyeok), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), producing a sound that does not correspond to a common Korean word but exists as part of the comprehensive standard encoding for Hangul syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+AFF8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ggwel
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "꿰" U+AFF0 Hangul Syllable Ggwe
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 꿸
HTML Hex Encoding 꿸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xBF 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAFF8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AFF8
C/C++/Java Escape \uaff8

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