U+CFA0 "쾠" Hangul Syllable Kwaess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쾠
U+CFA0 "쾠" Hangul Syllable Kwaess is a precomposed Korean Hangul syllable representing the phonetic combination of an initial consonant, a medial vowel, and a final consonant cluster. Specifically, it is formed from the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant cluster "ㅆ" (ssang shiot), which collectively produce the sound "kwaess". This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks in the modern Korean writing system, allowing for efficient text representation and processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFA0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwaess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucfa0 |