U+AD23 "괣" Hangul Syllable Gwaelb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괣
U+AD23 "괣" Hangul Syllable Gwaelb is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gwaelb." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (lb), which is a compound final consonant cluster. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Hangul jamo in a single code point. As a precomposed form, it allows for efficient text processing and display in digital environments, though it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD23 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaelb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad23 |