U+AD2A "괪" Hangul Syllable Gwaebs Unicode Character
U+AD2A "괪" Hangul Syllable Gwaebs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing a specific combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (bs). This syllable, pronounced roughly as "gwaebs" in the Revised Romanization of Korean, is classified under the Unicode block Hangul Syllables, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed by combining Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants. While it is a valid and structurally defined part of the written Hangul system, the syllable 괪 is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary and is infrequently encountered outside of specialized linguistic or typographic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD2A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad2a |