U+AD34 "괴" Hangul Syllable Goe Unicode Character
U+AD34 "괴" Hangul Syllable Goe is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "goe." This specific character is formed by the combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g/k), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and no final consonant, placing it within the standard syllabic blocks used to write the Korean language. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final jamo letters, U+AD34 is commonly used in written Korean to represent words like "괴물" (goemul, meaning monster) or "괴담" (goedam, meaning ghost story). Its inclusion ensures that digital text can accurately display this essential syllable without requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD34 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Goe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok "ᅬ" U+116C Hangul Jungseong Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 괴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 괴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB4 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD34 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD34 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad34 |