U+ADC3 "귃" Hangul Syllable Gwigs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
귃
U+ADC3 "귃" Hangul Syllable Gwigs is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㄱ” (g), the medial vowel “ㅟ” (wi), and the final consonant “ㄳ” (gs). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables for the Korean writing system, this character encodes a specific, albeit rare, syllable sound. While “귃” is not commonly used in modern standard Korean vocabulary, its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that any text containing this syllable, whether in historical documents, linguistic studies, or specialized digital fonts, can be accurately represented and rendered across various platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADC3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwigs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "귀" U+ADC0 Hangul Syllable Gwi "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 귃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 귃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB7 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadc3 |