U+CF8C "쾌" Hangul Syllable Kwae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쾌
U+CF8C "쾌" Hangul Syllable Kwae is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the optional final consonant, which in this case is absent, resulting in the sound "kwae." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters. In Korean, "쾌" carries a distinct tonal and phonetic identity, commonly appearing in words such as "쾌락" (kwae-rak), meaning pleasure or delight, and "쾌속" (kwae-sok), meaning rapid speed, reflecting its use in expressing concepts of swiftness, joy, or convenience.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF8C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwae |
| 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 "ᅫ" U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf8c |