U+CF9B "쾛" Hangul Syllable Kwaelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CF9B "쾛" Hangul Syllable Kwaelh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, specifically representing the sound "kwaelh." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (rieul-hieuh), the latter being a complex final consonant cluster. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses all possible syllables composed according to the systematic rules of the Korean writing system, and it is encoded as a single unified character rather than as a sequence of separate jamo components for efficient text processing and rendering.

General Properties

Code Point U+CF9B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kwaelh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쾛
HTML Hex Encoding 쾛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBE 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCF9B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CF9B
C/C++/Java Escape \ucf9b

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