U+AD50 "교" Hangul Syllable Gyo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
교
U+AD50 "교" Hangul Syllable Gyo is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "gyo." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and no final consonant, following the standard syllabic block structure of Hangul. This character is included in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the modern Korean alphabet for efficient text processing and display. In Korean, "교" commonly appears in words such as "교육" (education) and "교회" (church), serving as a fundamental component of the language's written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD50 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyo |
| 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 "ᅭ" U+116D Hangul Jungseong Yo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 교 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 교 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB5 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD50 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad50 |