U+ADD4 "귔" Hangul Syllable Gwiss Unicode Character
U+ADD4 "귔" Hangul Syllable Gwiss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic value "gwiss" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), resulting in a tense and sibilant ending. It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is typically used in contexts where precise phonetic transcription or representation of a specific, less common Korean syllable is needed, such as in linguistic notation or transliteration of foreign sounds. While not a frequent character in everyday Korean text, it demonstrates the systematic completeness of the Unicode Hangul syllabary, which includes over 11,000 precomposed syllables to cover all possible combinations of Korean jamo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADD4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwiss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 귔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 귔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB7 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADD4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADD4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadd4 |