U+AD31 "괱" Hangul Syllable Gwaet Unicode Character
U+AD31 "괱" Hangul Syllable Gwaet is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅌ" (t), pronounced roughly as "gwaet." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet to facilitate efficient text processing. While it is a valid and defined character for representing the Korean language, "괱" is extremely rare in modern usage, as the syllable "괱" does not commonly appear in standard Korean vocabulary, and it may only be encountered in specialized linguistic contexts or historical texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that the full theoretical set of Hangul syllables is available for digital representation and preservation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD31 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwaet |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD31 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad31 |