U+D059 "큙" Hangul Syllable Kyulg Unicode Character
U+D059 "큙" Hangul Syllable Kyulg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "kyulg" (a combination of the initial consonant "ㄱ" (k), the medial vowel "ㅠ" (yu), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg)). This specific syllable is formed algorithmically as part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean jamo characters in a systematic, phonetically ordered sequence. While not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, the character "큙" exists within the standard encoding to ensure comprehensive coverage of the language's syllabic inventory, primarily serving as a placeholder for potential lexical use or in technical text processing, rather than representing a frequently used term in modern spoken or written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D059 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyulg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "큐" U+D050 Hangul Syllable Kyu "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 큙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 큙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x81 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD059 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D059 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud059 |