U+AD0A "괊" Hangul Syllable Gwalp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괊
U+AD0A "괊" Hangul Syllable Gwalp is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul orthography used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "g" (ㄱ), the medial vowel "wa" (ㅘ), and the final consonant "lp" (ㄼ), and is pronounced roughly as "gwalb" or "gwalp" depending on contextual phonological rules. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible 11,172 valid two to three jamo (letter) combinations needed for standard Korean text. While "괊" is a valid and defined syllable, it is considered rare in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing in only a few specific words or possibly as part of older or technical terminology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD0A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwalp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD0A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD0A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad0a |