U+ADCF "귏" Hangul Syllable Gwilh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
귏
U+ADCF "귏" Hangul Syllable Gwilh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul blocks used for writing Korean. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "기역" (g or k), the medial vowel "위" (wi), and the final consonant "리을히읗" (lh), which together form the sound "gwilh" or "kwilh." As part of the Unicode Standard, it exists to facilitate the consistent digital representation of Korean text by providing a single codepoint for this syllable, which could otherwise be expressed as a sequence of individual jamo characters. This syllable is not common in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it demonstrates the comprehensive coverage of Hangul syllables in the Unicode system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADCF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwilh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 귏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 귏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB7 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADCF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADCF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadcf |