U+AD38 "괸" Hangul Syllable Goen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
괸
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 |