U+CF8F "쾏" Hangul Syllable Kwaegs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter