U+ADCB "귋" Hangul Syllable Gwilb Unicode Character
U+ADCB "귋" Hangul Syllable Gwilb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ᄀ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ᅱ" (wi), and the final consonant "ᆲ" (bieup with a following ribyeul), which together produce the phonetic value /ɡwilb/ in the Revised Romanization of Korean. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character represents a complete syllable rather than a sequence of separate jamo components, enabling efficient text processing for languages like Korean. Though its specific lexical usage is rare or technical within standard Korean vocabulary, it exemplifies the systematic structure of the Hangul script where over 11,000 such syllables are encoded to cover the full range of possible sound combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADCB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwilb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 귋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 귋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB7 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADCB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADCB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadcb |