U+D040 "큀" Hangul Syllable Kwils Unicode Character
U+D040 "큀" Hangul Syllable Kwils is a precomposed character representing a specific Korean syllable, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (rieul-siot) to create the sound "kwils". This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which contains precomposed combinations of Korean letters to facilitate digital text processing and display. It is used in written Korean to represent a syllable that may appear in native or loanwords, though its actual frequency in modern Korean text is limited, as it is not a common everyday syllable. The Unicode Standard encodes this character at the hexadecimal code point U+D040 to ensure consistent representation across different platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D040 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwils |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "퀴" U+D034 Hangul Syllable Kwi "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 큀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 큀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x81 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD040 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D040 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud040 |