U+AD78 "굸" Hangul Syllable Guls Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AD78 "굸" Hangul Syllable Guls is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "guls" (pronounced approximately as "gool-s"). It is formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (ls), which combine to create a single syllable block. In modern standard Korean, this syllable is extremely rare and does not appear in common vocabulary, though it could theoretically be used in transliterations or archaic contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode as part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00 D7AF) ensures consistent digital representation across platforms and devices.

General Properties

Code Point U+AD78
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Guls
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 굸
HTML Hex Encoding 굸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB5 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAD78
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AD78
C/C++/Java Escape \uad78

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter