U+D048 "큈" Hangul Syllable Kwiss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
큈
U+D048 "큈" Hangul Syllable Kwiss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kwiss," formed from the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅟ (wi), and the final consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single codepoint for efficient text processing. While not among the most commonly used syllables in everyday Korean, it appears in certain vocabulary or phonetic contexts, demonstrating the comprehensive nature of the Unicode standard in covering the full orthographic range of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D048 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwiss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 큈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 큈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x81 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD048 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D048 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud048 |