U+CFA3 "쾣" Hangul Syllable Kwaec Unicode Character
U+CFA3 "쾣" Hangul Syllable Kwaec is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the phonetic compound "kwae" followed by the final consonant "c" (which corresponds to the Korean letter ㅊ). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode Standard, which encodes all possible syllable combinations formed from the Korean alphabet known as Hangul. Specifically, it is constructed from the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), together forming a sound that does not commonly appear in modern standard Korean vocabulary but is valid under the phonological rules of the writing system. U+CFA3 thus serves as a technical representation for this particular syllable, enabling its use in digital text, historical documents, or linguistic contexts where precise encoding of all Hangul syllables is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFA3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kwaec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucfa3 |