U+AD30 "괰" Hangul Syllable Gwaek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괰
U+AD30 "괰" Hangul Syllable Gwaek is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (k). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic forms of the Korean alphabet, and is used in the Korean language to denote the sound /ɡwɛk/ as it appears in lexical contexts. While not as common as some other syllables, it exemplifies the systematic and modular nature of Hangul, where individual jamo are combined into square-shaped syllabic blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD30 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad30 |