U+ADD5 "귕" Hangul Syllable Gwing Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+ADD5 "귕" Hangul Syllable Gwing is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "gwing" which combines the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which covers the complete set of syllabic combinations in the Korean alphabet. While it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms for linguistic study, historical texts, or specialized transliteration purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+ADD5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gwing
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 귕
HTML Hex Encoding 귕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB7 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xADD5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000ADD5
C/C++/Java Escape \uadd5

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter