U+AD96 "궖" Hangul Syllable Gweolp Unicode Character
U+AD96 "궖" Hangul Syllable Gweolp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "g" (ㄱ), the medial vowel "weo" (ㅝ), and the final consonant "lp" (ㄼ). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet's initial, medial, and final components. While this specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the modular nature of Hangul, where individual jamo characters are combined into syllabic blocks, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation for historical or technical linguistic purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AD96 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gweolp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAD96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AD96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uad96 |