U+ADF8 "그" Hangul Syllable Geu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
그
U+ADF8 "그" Hangul Syllable Geu is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "geu" as in the word "그림" (geurim, meaning "picture" or "drawing"). It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok) with the vowel "ㅡ" (eu) and no final consonant, making it a simple and frequently used syllable in the Korean language. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible modern Korean syllables in a systematic order based on the traditional alphabet. In everyday Korean text, "그" appears in numerous common words and grammatical particles, such as the determiner "그" (meaning "that") and the pronoun "그것" (geugeot, meaning "that thing").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ADF8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Geu |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄀ" U+1100 Hangul Choseong Kiyeok "ᅳ" U+1173 Hangul Jungseong Eu |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 그 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 그 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xB7 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xADF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ADF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uadf8 |