U+AD25 "괥" Hangul Syllable Gwaelt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괥
U+AD25 "괥" Hangul Syllable Gwaelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used primarily for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g/k), the medial diphthong "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l), which together form the sound "gwaelt." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode the entire set of 11,172 possible syllables in the Korean writing system, allowing for efficient text processing and display. While this specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday contemporary Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and comprehensive nature of the Hangul script's construction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD25 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD25 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD25 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad25 |