U+CFBD "쾽" Hangul Syllable Koeng Unicode Character
U+CFBD "쾽" Hangul Syllable Koeng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to allow digital representation of the complete set of syllables formed by Korean jamo characters. This specific syllable, pronounced roughly as "koeng," is used in the Korean language as a single character block, though it appears relatively infrequently in common modern Korean text compared to more frequent syllables. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that Korean speakers and writers can accurately represent and process this syllable in digital environments, preserving the orthographic integrity of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFBD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Koeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쾽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쾽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBE 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucfbd |