U+CFE0 "쿠" Hangul Syllable Ku Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쿠
U+CFE0 "쿠" Hangul Syllable Ku is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ku" as pronounced in Korean. It is formed by combining the consonant ㅋ (chieut) and the vowel ㅜ (u), and it is one of over 11,000 precomposed Hangul syllables encoded in the Unicode Standard for use in digital text. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to efficiently represent modern Korean text, and it is commonly used in words such as "쿠키" (kuki, meaning "cookie") or in the name of the dessert "쿠우" (kuu). As a standard Unicode character, it ensures consistent display and interchange of Korean text across different platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFE0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ku |
| 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 "ᅮ" U+116E Hangul Jungseong U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쿠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쿠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBF 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucfe0 |