U+CF8F "쾏" Hangul Syllable Kwaegs Unicode Character
U+CF8F "쾏" Hangul Syllable Kwaegs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kwaegs" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant cluster "ㄳ" (giyeok-siot). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encompasses all logically possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet's jamo components. While "쾏" is a valid, encoded syllable, it is not a commonly used word in contemporary Korean and may appear only in specialized contexts such as historical texts, linguistic examples, or formal vocabulary where specific phonetic distinctions are preserved. The use of a complex final consonant cluster like "ㄳ" further marks it as relatively rare in standard modern Korean orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF8F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwaegs |
| 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 "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf8f |