U+D043 "큃" Hangul Syllable Kwilh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
큃
U+D043 "큃" Hangul Syllable Kwilh is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kwilh" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (rieul-hieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to denote a syllable that appears in certain lexical contexts, though it is relatively rare in contemporary language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent the full phonetic range of Hangul, preserving the orthographic integrity of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D043 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwilh |
| 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 "ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 큃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 큃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x81 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD043 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D043 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud043 |