U+ADD8 "귘" Hangul Syllable Gwik Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
귘
U+ADD8 "귘" Hangul Syllable Gwik is a single syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, composed of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok) to form the phonetic sound "gwik". It falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was designed to encode the 11,172 possible combinations of initial, medial, and final jamo characters used in contemporary Korean. While this specific syllable is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it exists as a valid orthographic form within the standard set of syllabic characters, primarily serving as a representation of theoretical phonological combinations rather than a frequently occurring word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADD8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Gwik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 귘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 귘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB7 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadd8 |