U+D017 "퀗" Hangul Syllable Kweoh Unicode Character
U+D017 "퀗" Hangul Syllable Kweoh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kweoh" which combines the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅝ (weo), and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations formed from the Korean alphabet following the standard syllabic layout. It is used in written Korean for representing specific phonetic sequences, though its actual occurrence in everyday vocabulary is rare compared to more common syllables. The inclusion of such syllables in Unicode ensures comprehensive support for the full range of Hangul orthography in digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D017 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kweoh |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퀗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퀗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x80 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD017 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D017 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud017 |