U+AD08 "" Hangul Syllable Gwals Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+AD08 "" Hangul Syllable Gwals is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic value "gwals" (a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (l) with a final "ㅅ" (s)). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. While this specific syllable is relatively rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul writing system, where individual phonetic components combine to form complete syllabic blocks.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
괈
HTML Hex Encoding
괈
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xB4 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0xAD08
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000AD08
C/C++/Java Escape
\uad08