U+CFF9 "쿹" Hangul Syllable Kut Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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