U+AD57 "굗" Hangul Syllable Gyod Unicode Character
U+AD57 "굗" Hangul Syllable Gyod is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "gyod" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (d). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean lead consonants, medial vowels, and tail consonants into single, unified codepoints for efficient text processing and display. While "굗" is a valid and structurally complete Hangul syllable, it is not commonly used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, as its sound cluster is rare in standard words, but it remains available for proper names, linguistic transcription, or specialized textual contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD57 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyod |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "교" U+AD50 Hangul Syllable Gyo "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 굗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 굗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB5 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad57 |