U+ADE8 "귨" Hangul Syllable Gyuls Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+ADE8 "귨" Hangul Syllable Gyuls is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "gyuls" (a combination of the initial consonant "gy", the medial vowel "u", and the final consonant "ls" in Korean romanization). As part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF), it was encoded in Unicode to facilitate digital text processing for the Korean language, where syllables are formed by combining jamo (individual letters). However, in practice, this specific syllable is extremely rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, appearing almost exclusively in specialized or historical linguistic contexts, and it does not serve as a common word in modern spoken or written Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+ADE8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Gyuls
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "규" U+ADDC Hangul Syllable Gyu
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 귨
HTML Hex Encoding 귨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xB7 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xADE8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000ADE8
C/C++/Java Escape \uade8

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