U+CFFD "쿽" Hangul Syllable Kweog Unicode Character
U+CFFD "쿽" Hangul Syllable Kweog is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language to represent the phonetic sound "kweog." This syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄏ (kieuk, representing a aspirated velar plosive "k"), the medial vowel ㅝ (weo, a diphthong sound), and the final consonant ᆨ (bieup, representing a velar plosive "g"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character to facilitate efficient text processing and display, particularly in digital environments where Korean text is rendered. The syllable itself carries the meaning inherent to its phonetic value within Korean vocabulary, though as a standalone character it primarily functions as a building block for words rather than conveying a specific definition by itself.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFFD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kweog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쿼" U+CFFC Hangul Syllable Kweo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쿽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쿽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBF 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFFD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFFD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucffd |