U+D004 "퀄" Hangul Syllable Kweol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
퀄
U+D004 "퀄" Hangul Syllable Kweol is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing, corresponding to the sound "kweol" in English approximation. This character is used in modern Korean to form words such as "퀄리티" (kwolliti), a loanword from English "quality," and it plays a role in representing both native and borrowed vocabulary with the distinct syllable structure typical of Hangul.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D004 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kweol |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쿼" U+CFFC Hangul Syllable Kweo "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퀄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퀄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x80 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD004 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D004 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud004 |