U+AD07 "괇" Hangul Syllable Gwalb Unicode Character
U+AD07 "괇" Hangul Syllable Gwalb is a complex Korean syllable formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (lb), which together produce the sound "gwalb" as part of the modern Hangul syllabary. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses precomposed syllables used in writing the Korean language, and it is derived from the logical joining of its constituent jamo according to the rules of Korean orthography. While "괇" itself is not a common word in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and efficient encoding of over 11,000 possible syllables in the Unicode standard, allowing for the accurate digital representation of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD07 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwalb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "과" U+ACFC Hangul Syllable Gwa "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD07 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD07 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad07 |