U+D027 "퀧" Hangul Syllable Kwelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+D027 "퀧" Hangul Syllable Kwelh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kh), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (lh), which together produce the sound "kwelh" as used in Korean writing. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, a Unicode range that encodes all possible syllables formed by combining Korean jamo characters in a systematic, ordered sequence. While "퀧" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to the rules of Hangul orthography, it is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary compared to more common syllables like "퀸" (kwin) or "퀴" (kwi), and its presence in Unicode primarily serves to ensure complete coverage of the theoretical syllabary for digital text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+D027
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kwelh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 퀧
HTML Hex Encoding 퀧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xED 0x80 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD027
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000D027
C/C++/Java Escape \ud027

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