U+ADB7 "궷" Hangul Syllable Gwes Unicode Character
U+ADB7 "궷" Hangul Syllable Gwes is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the sound "gwes." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (weo), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (s), following the standard syllabic block structure of Hangul. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. While "궷" is a valid and typable syllable, it is notably rare or even nonexistent as a natural word in standard Korean vocabulary, often appearing only in technical linguistic contexts, transliterations, or specialized lexical databases rather than in everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADB7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADB7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADB7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadb7 |