U+AD24 "괤" Hangul Syllable Gwaels Unicode Character
U+AD24 "괤" Hangul Syllable Gwaels is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (ls) as a single complex syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllabic sequences of modern and middle Korean using a systematic arrangement of initial, medial, and final consonant and vowel jamo. As a syllable that includes a double final consonant cluster, "괤" is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary but is valid for representing specific morphological or phonetic forms in the language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text systems can correctly display and process this syllable without requiring separate rendering of its constituent jamo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD24 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD24 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD24 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad24 |