U+AFFE "꿾" Hangul Syllable Ggwelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꿾
U+AFFE "꿾" Hangul Syllable Ggwelp is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes precomposed syllable characters for the Korean writing system. This particular syllable combines an initial consonant "ㄲ" (a tense velar plosive, representing the sound "gg"), a medial vowel "ㅞ" (the diphthong "we"), and a final consonant "ㄿ" (the cluster "lp"). It is used in modern and historical Korean orthography, appearing in vocabulary or names where the sound "ggwelp" occurs, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for Hangul text, reflecting the systematic layout of the 11,172 possible syllables in the Korean alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AFFE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ggwelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 꿾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 꿾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xBF 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAFFE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AFFE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaffe |