U+CF9A "쾚" Hangul Syllable Kwaelp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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