U+CFF9 "쿹" Hangul Syllable Kut Unicode Character
U+CFF9 "쿹" Hangul Syllable Kut is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllable block, representing the Korean syllable pronounced “kut.” It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄏ (kieuk, aspirated /kʰ/), the vowel ᅮ (u, a back rounded vowel), and the final consonant ᆮ (t, an unreleased alveolar stop), following the standard morphographic principle of Hangul writing. This character is used in written Korean to represent words or morphemes containing that specific sound combination, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday modern Korean vocabulary compared to more frequent syllables. As part of the Unicode encoding system, it allows seamless digital representation and processing of the syllable across different platforms and fonts, preserving the phonetic and structural logic inherent in the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFF9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kut |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쿹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쿹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBF 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucff9 |