U+D024 "퀤" Hangul Syllable Kwels Unicode Character
U+D024 "퀤" Hangul Syllable Kwels is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the sound "kwels." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk, representing a /k/ or /kʰ/ sound) with the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we, a compound vowel pronounced /we/), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (rieul and siot, a final consonant cluster pronounced /ls/). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible combinations of Hangul letters to facilitate efficient text rendering. In Korean, such a syllable is relatively rare because it combines a labialized vowel with a complex coda, but it could appear in loanwords or onomatopoeic expressions where the precise phonetic value is needed.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D024 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 퀤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 퀤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x80 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD024 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D024 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud024 |