U+AD5C "굜" Hangul Syllable Gyols Unicode Character
U+AD5C "굜" Hangul Syllable Gyols is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "gyol" as spoken in Korean. It is composed of the initial consonant ᄀ (giyeok), the medial vowel ᅭ (yo), and the final consonant ᆯ (rieul), combined into a single block according to the rules of Hangul orthography. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final jamo in a single precomposed form for efficient text processing. While not among the most common Korean syllables, it does appear in certain words and contexts, contributing to the comprehensive representation of the Korean language within Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD5C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gyols |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 굜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 굜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB5 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad5c |