U+AD11 "광" Hangul Syllable Gwang Unicode Character
U+AD11 "광" Hangul Syllable Gwang is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gwang." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng), a common structure in Hangul where characters are assembled into syllabic blocks. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters to facilitate digital text processing. In Korean, "광" carries meanings such as "light" or "ray," as in the word "빛광," and appears in various contexts, including compound words like "광고" (advertisement) and "태양광" (solar light). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper representation and readability of Korean text across modern digital platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD11 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 광 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 광 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD11 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD11 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad11 |