U+AD2C "괬" Hangul Syllable Gwaess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괬
U+AD2C "괬" Hangul Syllable Gwaess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss). It represents the phonetic sound "gwaess" as it would appear in Korean writing, though it is not a common syllable in everyday vocabulary. As part of the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which encodes thousands of such precomposed syllables for efficient digital text representation, the character is encoded in UTF-8 as the bytes "EA AD AC".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD2C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad2c |