U+AD19 "괙" Hangul Syllable Gwaeg Unicode Character
U+AD19 "괙" Hangul Syllable Gwaeg is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gwaeg." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (g), and its use is extremely rare in modern Korean, as it does not appear in standard contemporary vocabulary or common word lists. This syllable falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants according to the official South Korean standard KS X 1001. While it is a valid and recognizable syllable in the Korean typographic system, it is considered obsolete or archaic, primarily encountered in historical texts or as a theoretical possibility within the full range of Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD19 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "괘" U+AD18 Hangul Syllable Gwae "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad19 |