U+AD2E "괮" Hangul Syllable Gwaej Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괮
U+AD2E "괮" Hangul Syllable Gwaej is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic syllable "gwaej," which combines the initial consonant "g" (ㄱ), the medial vowel "wae" (ㅙ), and the final consonant "j" (ㅈ) into a single block character. This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a standardized, machine-readable form. U+AD2E is used in written Korean texts to represent words that contain this specific syllable sound, contributing to the efficient, compact representation of Korean orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD2E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad2e |