U+ADB1 "궱" Hangul Syllable Gwelt Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+ADB1 "궱" Hangul Syllable Gwelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄿ" (rieul bieup). This specific syllable, representing the sound "gwelt," is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes over 11,000 precomposed syllables for efficient text processing and display. While "궱" is a valid phonetic combination within the Korean writing system, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and may appear primarily in specialized linguistic contexts, transliterations, or historical documentation of the language.

General Properties

Code Point U+ADB1
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gwelt
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "궤" U+ADA4 Hangul Syllable Gwe
"ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 궱
HTML Hex Encoding 궱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB6 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xADB1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000ADB1
C/C++/Java Escape \uadb1

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