U+AD09 "괉" Hangul Syllable Gwalt Unicode Character
U+AD09 "괉" Hangul Syllable Gwalt is a specific and rarely used character in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic syllable "gwalt". It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄹㅌ" (rieul and tieut), a complex final consonant cluster called a "batchim". In the Unicode standard, this character is placed within the Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables designed to accurately represent the entire possible range of Korean orthography. While this particular syllable may not appear in everyday Korean vocabulary, its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any text requiring this specific phonetic sound can be digitally encoded and displayed correctly across different platforms and languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD09 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwalt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad09 |