U+CFA5 "쾥" Hangul Syllable Kwaet Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CFA5 "쾥" Hangul Syllable Kwaet is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "kwaet," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅌ" (tieut). As part of the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, this character is encoded as a single code point for efficient text processing and display, reflecting the standard method of organizing Korean syllables into two, three, or four component letters. Its specific use appears in Korean vocabulary and text, though it is not among the most frequently encountered syllables in everyday writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+CFA5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kwaet
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
"ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쾥
HTML Hex Encoding 쾥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBE 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCFA5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CFA5
C/C++/Java Escape \ucfa5

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