U+AD42 "굂" Hangul Syllable Goelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
굂
U+AD42 "굂" Hangul Syllable Goelp is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "goelp," which combines the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and the final consonant "ㄹㅂ" (lb) as part of the Korean writing system. This syllable, like others in the Hangul Syllables block, is encoded in Unicode to facilitate digital text processing and display of modern and historical Korean language, though its practical usage is rare compared to more common syllables. It serves as an example of the systematic encoding of all possible syllabic combinations in Hangul, which allows for precise representation of Korean phonetics in computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD42 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Goelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 굂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 굂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB5 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad42 |