U+CF9A "쾚" Hangul Syllable Kwaelp Unicode Character
U+CF9A "쾚" Hangul Syllable Kwaelp is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "kwaelp." This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk, which produces a 'k' sound) with the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae, a diphthong combining 'o' and 'ae') and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup, an aspirated 'p'), resulting in a single syllable block that follows the structural rules of Hangul composition. As part of the modern Hangul syllable block system, it belongs to the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which encodes syllables in a systematic order based on their constituent jamo characters. While relatively rare in everyday usage due to the infrequency of the complex sound sequence it represents, this character is fully supported in standard Korean text processing and rendering systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF9A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwaelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf9a |