U+AD38 "괸" Hangul Syllable Goen Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AD38 "괸" Hangul Syllable Goen is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "goen." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and the final consonant "ㄴ" (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllables formed from the modern Korean alphabet, and it is encoded as a single codepoint to facilitate efficient text processing in digital environments. The syllable "괸" itself is not among the most frequently used syllables in modern Korean, but it appears in certain words and contexts, contributing to the complete representation of the language in electronic text.

General Properties

Code Point U+AD38
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Goen
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "괴" U+AD34 Hangul Syllable Goe
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 괸
HTML Hex Encoding 괸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB4 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAD38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AD38
C/C++/Java Escape \uad38

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter