U+CF80 "쾀" Hangul Syllable Kwam Unicode Character
U+CF80 "쾀" Hangul Syllable Kwam is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "kwam" in the Korean Hangul writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk) with the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa) and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), which together create a closed syllable. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes syllables in modern Korean in a systematic order based on the sequence of their consonant and vowel components. While not frequently used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it appears in certain native words or transcriptions, demonstrating how Unicode efficiently represents the entire set of 11,172 possible Hangul syllables as distinct characters for digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF80 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwam |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "콰" U+CF70 Hangul Syllable Kwa "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf80 |