U+ADB8 "궸" Hangul Syllable Gwess Unicode Character
U+ADB8 "궸" Hangul Syllable Gwess is a composite glyph in the modern Korean writing system, representing the syllabic block formed by the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), which combine to sound as "gwess" in romanization. This particular syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, an encoding standard that assigns a unique code point to each precomposed Korean syllabic block, allowing digital systems to accurately display and process Korean text without needing to manually combine individual jamo characters. While it is a valid and defined character in the Unicode standard, the syllable "궸" is extremely rare in everyday Korean usage, as words containing the "ㅞ" vowel followed by a double consonant final are uncommon, and it primarily exists to maintain completeness within the 11,172 possible Hangul syllable combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADB8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 궸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 궸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB6 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadb8 |