U+CFAA "쾪" Hangul Syllable Koegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CFAA "쾪" Hangul Syllable Koegg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing a specific phonetic combination in the Korean alphabet, Hangul. It is composed of the initial consonant “ㅋ” (kieuk), the medial vowel “ㅚ” (oe), and the final consonant cluster “ㄲ” (ssang-giyeok), which is a doubled form of the basic “ㄱ” sound. This syllable, pronounced /kʰwe̞k̚/ in standard Korean, is exceptionally rare in contemporary usage and is not commonly found in everyday Korean vocabulary or modern texts. Its inclusion in Unicode serves to support the complete coverage of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations according to the official Hangul orthography, ensuring that even obscure or theoretical syllables are representable in digital formats.

General Properties

Code Point U+CFAA
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Koegg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쾨" U+CFA8 Hangul Syllable Koe
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쾪
HTML Hex Encoding 쾪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBE 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCFAA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CFAA
C/C++/Java Escape \ucfaa

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