U+ADB3 "궳" Hangul Syllable Gwelh Unicode Character
U+ADB3 "궳" Hangul Syllable Gwelh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean phonetic unit "gwelh," which combines the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (lh). This character is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which systematically arranges all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters according to the standard syllabic structure of the Korean writing system. As a specific grapheme, "궳" is used in written Korean to represent a syllable that may appear in vocabulary or proper names, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday text. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and processing across different platforms and software, supporting the full range of Korean language typography and text handling.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADB3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwelh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadb3 |