U+CF8E "쾎" Hangul Syllable Kwaegg Unicode Character
U+CF8E "쾎" Hangul Syllable Kwaegg is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant "ㅋ" (k), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄲ" (gg). This character represents a specific phonetic sound within the modern Korean language, and its composition follows the standard Hangul orthographic rules where individual jamo characters are combined into a single syllable block. While not as common as simpler syllables, "쾎" is part of the comprehensive Unicode Hangul syllable block, which includes over 11,000 precomposed syllables to support full Korean text representation. Its inclusion ensures that all possible valid Hangul syllables can be encoded and displayed digitally without needing to separately combine jamo in real time.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF8E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwaegg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쾌" U+CF8C Hangul Syllable Kwae "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf8e |