U+ADAE "궮" Hangul Syllable Gwelm Unicode Character
U+ADAE "궮" Hangul Syllable Gwelm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic cluster "gwelm." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (lm), which together produce a specific sound that may appear in older or less common Korean vocabulary. Classified under the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode Standard, this character is typically used in digital text rendering to accurately display a single, indivisible syllable unit in Korean writing, ensuring proper typographic and linguistic representation. Its inclusion supports the comprehensive encoding of all possible 11,172 Hangul syllables, fulfilling the system's requirement for a fully closed set of precomposed characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADAE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwelm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "궤" U+ADA4 Hangul Syllable Gwe "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADAE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADAE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadae |