U+AD13 "괓" Hangul Syllable Gwac Unicode Character
U+AD13 "괓" Hangul Syllable Gwac is a precomposed Hangul syllabic block representing the sound "gwac" in the Korean writing system. This character is composed of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok) combined with the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa) and the final consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), all of which are assembled into a single encoded unit for text processing. It falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, specifically in the range U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllabic combinations. In modern standard Korean, "괓" is considered a rare or obsolete syllable, as its pronunciation does not correspond to a commonly used word, but it may still appear in historical texts, linguistic studies, or specialized transliterations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD13 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwac |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD13 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD13 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad13 |