U+ADA4 "궤" Hangul Syllable Gwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
궤
U+ADA4 "궤" Hangul Syllable Gwe is a precomposed syllable used in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "gwe" which combines the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g) and the final vowel "ㅞ" (we). It serves as an element of modern standard Hangul, appearing in words such as "궤도" (gwedo), meaning "orbit" or "track," and "궤짝" (gwejjak), meaning "chest" or "box." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the modern Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADA4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwe |
| 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 "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uada4 |