U+AD6C "구" Hangul Syllable Gu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
구
U+AD6C "구" Hangul Syllable Gu is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "gu", formed by the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g/k) and the vowel "ㅜ" (u). In the Hangul writing system, it is one of the many characters that encode syllable blocks, allowing for efficient text processing. This specific syllable is commonly used in the Korean language, appearing in words such as "구름" (gureum, meaning "cloud") and "구두" (gudu, meaning "shoes"), and it also functions as a Sino-Korean morpheme for the number nine (九).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD6C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gu |
| 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 "ᅮ" U+116E Hangul Jungseong U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 구 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 구 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB5 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD6C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad6c |