U+CFB4 "쾴" Hangul Syllable Koels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쾴
U+CFB4 "쾴" Hangul Syllable Koels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and the final consonant "ㄹㅅ" (lieul-sios) as a complex batchim, representing the sound "koels." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet to facilitate digital text processing and display. While the sound "koels" is not a common word in standard Korean vocabulary, it exists as a valid phonetic and orthographic unit within the language’s syllable inventory, allowing for the representation of loanwords, onomatopoeia, or rare terms where such a cluster may appear.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFB4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Koels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucfb4 |