U+AD70 "군" Hangul Syllable Gun Unicode Character
U+AD70 "군" Hangul Syllable Gun is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "gun" by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g/k) with the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u) and the final consonant "ㄴ" (n). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations. In the Korean language, "군" is a versatile syllable that can function as a noun meaning "army" or "group," as a suffix indicating a group of people (like "학생군" for "student group"), or as an honorific title equivalent to "Mr." when attached to a man's name. Its usage is common in both everyday conversation and formal writing, making it a fundamental component of Korean text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD70 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gun |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "구" U+AD6C Hangul Syllable Gu "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 군 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 군 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB5 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad70 |