U+AD08 "괈" Hangul Syllable Gwals Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괈
U+AD08 "괈" Hangul Syllable Gwals is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic value "gwals" (a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l) with a final "ㅅ" (s)). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. While this specific syllable is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul writing system, where individual phonetic components combine to form complete syllabic blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwals |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad08 |