U+ADC9 "귉" Hangul Syllable Gwilg Unicode Character
U+ADC9 "귉" Hangul Syllable Gwilg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic value [kɥilk] (or the voiceless velar plosive "g" with a rounded glide "wi" and the final consonant "lg") as defined in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block. This character is formed algorithmically by combining the initial consonant ᄀ (giyeok), the medial vowel ᅱ (wi), and the final consonant ᆰ (rieul-giyeok), a compound batchim that creates the "lg" cluster sound. In standard Korean orthography, "귉" is an extremely rare or possibly non-existent syllable in everyday vocabulary, as the final consonant cluster "-lg" is uncommon in native Korean words, making the character more of a theoretical or historically derived placeholder used to maintain the systematic completeness of the Unicode syllable repertoire. Its practical usage is therefore limited, serving primarily as a typographic or computational representation for that specific phonetic combination rather than as
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADC9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwilg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 귉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 귉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB7 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadc9 |