U+CF85 "쾅" Hangul Syllable Kwang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쾅
U+CF85 "쾅" Hangul Syllable Kwang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "kwang." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk, aspirated like a strong 'k'), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa, a diphthong blending 'o' and 'a'), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung, which in this final position produces a velar nasal 'ng' sound). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters in a contiguous range, and it is commonly used in Korean vocabulary to express words like the onomatopoeic "쾅" for a loud bang or crash sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF85 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwang |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf85 |