U+AD0C "괌" Hangul Syllable Gwam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괌
U+AD0C "괌" Hangul Syllable Gwam is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "gwam" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters. This specific syllable does not have a common standalone meaning in Korean vocabulary but is used in the phonetic representation of loanwords or as a component within larger words, particularly for transcribing foreign names or terms like the Pacific island of Guam, which is spelled as "괌" in Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD0C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD0C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD0C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad0c |