U+D018 "퀘" Hangul Syllable Kwe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
퀘
U+D018 "퀘" Hangul Syllable Kwe is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kwe" as a combination of the initial consonant ᄏ (kieuk) and the medial vowel ㅞ (we). This specific syllable is encoded in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate digital text processing for the Korean language. Its usage is straightforward in Korean orthography, appearing in words such as 퀘스트 (keuseuteu, meaning "quest") or 퀴즈 (kwijeu, meaning "quiz"), where it serves as a common component in loanwords from English.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D018 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퀘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퀘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x80 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD018 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D018 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud018 |