U+AD21 "괡" Hangul Syllable Gwaelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AD21 "괡" Hangul Syllable Gwaelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "g" (ㄱ) and the medial vowel "wae" (ㅙ) followed by the final consonant "lg" (ㄺ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables that allow for efficient text processing and display by avoiding the need for runtime combination of individual jamo components.

General Properties

Code Point U+AD21
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gwaelg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 괡
HTML Hex Encoding 괡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB4 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAD21
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AD21
C/C++/Java Escape \uad21

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter