U+AD80 "궀" Hangul Syllable Guss Unicode Character
U+AD80 "궀" Hangul Syllable Guss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "guss." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g) with the medial vowel "ㅜ" (u) and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), which itself is a doubled character representing the tense or fortis "s" sound. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, "궀" is encoded to support the correct typographic representation of Korean text, where such precomposed syllables are standard for efficient rendering and sorting in digital environments. This particular syllable, while valid in the Korean character set, is uncommon in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, as the combination of "u" with a tense final "ss" is rare and typically appears in specialized or loanword contexts or in the Jeju dialect, where such phonetic structures occasionally occur.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD80 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Guss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad80 |