U+AD56 "굖" Hangul Syllable Gyonh Unicode Character
U+AD56 "굖" Hangul Syllable Gyonh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "gyonh." This character is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and the final consonant "ㄶ" (nh), specifically the consonant cluster "ㄴㅎ" (nieun and hieut) combined as a single final. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that allow for the efficient digital representation of the Korean language, avoiding the need to dynamically combine individual jamo characters. As a valid, though relatively rare, syllable in Korean, "굖" is used in written text according to standard Hangul orthography, with its specific pronunciation involving a tensing or aspirating effect from the final "nh" cluster.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD56 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyonh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "교" U+AD50 Hangul Syllable Gyo "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 굖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 굖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB5 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad56 |