U+ADB8 "" Hangul Syllable Gwess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+ADB8 "" Hangul Syllable Gwess is a composite glyph in the modern Korean writing system, representing the syllabic block formed by the initial consonant "ㄱ" (g), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ss), which combine to sound as "gwess" in romanization. This particular syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, an encoding standard that assigns a unique code point to each precomposed Korean syllabic block, allowing digital systems to accurately display and process Korean text without needing to manually combine individual jamo characters. While it is a valid and defined character in the Unicode standard, the syllable "궸" is extremely rare in everyday Korean usage, as words containing the "ㅞ" vowel followed by a double consonant final are uncommon, and it primarily exists to maintain completeness within the 11,172 possible Hangul syllable combinations.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
궸
HTML Hex Encoding
궸
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xB6 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding
0xADB8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000ADB8
C/C++/Java Escape
\uadb8