U+AD22 "괢" Hangul Syllable Gwaelm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괢
U+AD22 "괢" Hangul Syllable Gwaelm is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄱ” (g), the medial vowel “ㅙ” (wae), and the final consonant “ㄻ” (lm). It forms part of the modern Hangul syllabary block, which was systematically encoded in Unicode to support the Korean writing system, allowing for the accurate digital representation of over 11,000 possible syllable blocks. While this specific syllable is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, its inclusion ensures full coverage for historical texts, linguistic documentation, and proper typesetting of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD22 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad22 |