U+AD8F "궏" Hangul Syllable Gweod Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AD8F "궏" Hangul Syllable Gweod is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script used for the Korean language. It represents the sound "gweot" and is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo), and the final consonant "ㄷ" (d). This specific syllable does not correspond to a common Korean word in modern usage, but it is encoded in the Unicode standard as part of the comprehensive Hangul Syllables block, which includes all possible syllabic blocks that can be created from the Korean alphabet. Its inclusion ensures that text processing and display systems can handle the full theoretical set of Hangul syllables, even for rare or rarely used combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+AD8F
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gweod
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "궈" U+AD88 Hangul Syllable Gweo
"ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 궏
HTML Hex Encoding 궏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB6 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAD8F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AD8F
C/C++/Java Escape \uad8f

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