U+AFFC "꿼" Hangul Syllable Ggwels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꿼
U+AFFC "꿼" Hangul Syllable Ggwels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ggwels" through the combination of the initial consonant 쀼 (쌍기역, a double "g" sound), the medial vowel ㅞ (a diphthong composed of "w" and "e"), and the final consonant ㄹㅅ (a double final consonant "l" and "s"). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed from Korean jamo letters. As a relatively rare syllable, it is used in specific Korean vocabulary and names, but its inclusion in the standard ensures comprehensive coverage of the language's combinatorial phonetic system for digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFFC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaffc |