U+CFA7 "쾧" Hangul Syllable Kwaeh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CFA7 "쾧" Hangul Syllable Kwaeh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "kwaeh" which combines the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㅎ (hieut). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, a large range of Unicode that encodes complete Korean syllable units without requiring separate composition from individual jamo letters. As a valid and assigned code point, it is used in written Korean text to denote a specific syllabic sound, primarily appearing in contexts where this combination occurs in the Korean language.

General Properties

Code Point U+CFA7
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kwaeh
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
"ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쾧
HTML Hex Encoding 쾧
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBE 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCFA7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CFA7
C/C++/Java Escape \ucfa7

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