U+ADCC "귌" Hangul Syllable Gwils Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
귌
U+ADCC "귌" Hangul Syllable Gwils is a relatively rare or unused syllable in modern Korean, composed of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (ls), which represents a complex cluster ending. This syllable does not appear in standard everyday Korean vocabulary and is considered archaic or obsolete, primarily existing within the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive coverage of all possible phonetically valid Hangul syllables from the Korean writing system. Its inclusion reflects the systematic nature of the Hangul syllabary block, which encodes over 11,000 possible syllables to support historical texts and precise linguistic representation, even for forms no longer in active use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADCC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwils |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 귌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 귌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB7 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADCC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADCC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadcc |