U+CFE3 "쿣" Hangul Syllable Kugs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CFE3 "쿣" Hangul Syllable Kugs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "k" (ㅋ), the medial vowel "u" (ㅜ), and the final consonant "gs" (ㄳ). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet in a standard sequence. While not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it is a valid and correctly formed syllable that demonstrates the systematic and combinatorial nature of Hangul orthography, allowing for precise representation of Korean speech sounds in digital text.

General Properties

Code Point U+CFE3
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kugs
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쿠" U+CFE0 Hangul Syllable Ku
"ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쿣
HTML Hex Encoding 쿣
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBF 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCFE3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CFE3
C/C++/Java Escape \ucfe3

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