U+ADB5 "궵" Hangul Syllable Gweb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
궵
U+ADB5 "궵" Hangul Syllable Gweb is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, representing a single syllable formed from the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (b). Despite its technically valid composition according to Modern Korean syllable construction rules, this syllable is extremely rare in actual Korean language usage, to the point where it does not appear in standard Korean dictionaries or common vocabulary. Its primary existence is as a theoretical or placeholder syllable within the Unicode encoding system, which programmatically assigns unique code points to all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean jamo letters, including those without practical application in written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADB5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gweb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADB5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADB5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadb5 |