U+CF87 "쾇" Hangul Syllable Kwac Unicode Character
U+CF87 "쾇" Hangul Syllable Kwac is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (chieut). This specific syllable, representing the sound "kwac," is encoded as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically maps all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and standardized character in the Unicode standard, "쾇" is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as its phonetic structure is more likely to appear in transliterated foreign words or specialized linguistic contexts rather than in common native Korean terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF87 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwac |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf87 |