U+D023 "퀣" Hangul Syllable Kwelb Unicode Character
U+D023 "퀣" Hangul Syllable Kwelb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk, a aspirated velar stop), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we, a diphthong glide), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (rieul-pieup, a complex double coda). This specific syllable is not one of the most common in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it combines a relatively rare medial and a complex final consonant cluster, but it appears in certain transcribed loanwords, technical terms, or as part of larger compound words. As a precomposed character in the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, it provides a single codepoint for efficient text processing and rendering, rather than requiring a sequence of individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D023 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwelb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "퀘" U+D018 Hangul Syllable Kwe "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퀣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퀣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x80 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD023 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D023 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud023 |