U+D00B "퀋" Hangul Syllable Kweolh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D00B "퀋" Hangul Syllable Kweolh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed from the combination of the consonants "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅝ" (wo), and the final consonant "ㄿ" (rieul-pieup), which is a compound batchim representing the "l" and "p" sounds. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks that can be created from the 24 basic jamo characters of Hangul, allowing for efficient text representation without needing separate combining sequences. As a rare or less common syllable in standard Korean, its usage is largely typographic, enabling precise rendering of theoretical or specialized phonetic expressions within digital text and software that supports the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+D00B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kweolh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 퀋
HTML Hex Encoding 퀋
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x80 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD00B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D00B
C/C++/Java Escape \ud00b

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