U+CFA8 "쾨" Hangul Syllable Koe Unicode Character
U+CFA8 "쾨" Hangul Syllable Koe is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk) and the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed by combining Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and optional final consonants. In standard Korean usage, "쾨" is a relatively rare syllable, appearing in a limited number of words or names, and its pronunciation corresponds to the sound "koe" as in the English word "co-went" without the final "t". The character's inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures its proper display and digital representation across modern computing platforms, supporting the accurate rendering of Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Koe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh "ᅬ" U+116C Hangul Jungseong Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucfa8 |