U+ADB0 "궰" Hangul Syllable Gwels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
궰
U+ADB0 "궰" Hangul Syllable Gwels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "gwels" and formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (lb). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters into single code points for efficient text processing. While not a common word in Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic structure of Hangul, where syllables are built from phonetic components arranged in a square block format. The character is used in digital text representation and typography to ensure accurate rendering of Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADB0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADB0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadb0 |