U+CFE8 "쿨" Hangul Syllable Kul Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쿨
U+CFE8 "쿨" Hangul Syllable Kul is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic sound "kul." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄏ (kieuk, which produces a "k" sound with aspiration), the medial vowel ᅮ (u, similar to the "oo" in "cool"), and the final consonant ᆯ (rieul, an "l" sound). In Korean vocabulary, the syllable "쿨" often appears in loanwords and descriptive terms, such as in the word "쿨하다" (kulhada), which means "cool" or "chill" in the sense of being composed or stylish, reflecting its common usage in contemporary slang and casual language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFE8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kul |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쿨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쿨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBF 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucfe8 |