U+CF70 "콰" Hangul Syllable Kwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
콰
U+CF70 "콰" Hangul Syllable Kwa is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kwa" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk) and the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Hangul jamo as single code points for efficient text processing and display. "콰" is used in modern Korean vocabulary, often appearing in words like "콰직" (kwajik) for a crunching sound or "콰르텟" (kwaleutet) for the musical term quartet, and it follows the standard phonetic structure of initial consonant, vowel, and optional final consonant in a square-like block arrangement typical of Hangul.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF70 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwa |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 콰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 콰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBD 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf70 |