U+AD43 "굃" Hangul Syllable Goelh Unicode Character
U+AD43 "굃" Hangul Syllable Goelh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant giyeok (ㄱ), the medial vowel oe (ㅚ), and the final consonant rieul (ㄹ). This syllable is rarely used in contemporary Korean, as it does not correspond to a common word in standard vocabulary, and its practical occurrence is limited to archaic texts, transcriptions of foreign sounds, or highly specialized linguistic contexts. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it allows for efficient text rendering by providing a single codepoint for this particular syllabic block, reflecting the systematic compositionality of Hangul where individual jamo letters are combined into syllable blocks.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD43 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Goelh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 굃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 굃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB5 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad43 |