U+CF8C "" Hangul Syllable Kwae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+CF8C "" Hangul Syllable Kwae is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the optional final consonant, which in this case is absent, resulting in the sound "kwae." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters. In Korean, "쾌" carries a distinct tonal and phonetic identity, commonly appearing in words such as "쾌락" (kwae-rak), meaning pleasure or delight, and "쾌속" (kwae-sok), meaning rapid speed, reflecting its use in expressing concepts of swiftness, joy, or convenience.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
쾌
HTML Hex Encoding
쾌
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEC 0xBE 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding
0xCF8C
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000CF8C
C/C++/Java Escape
\ucf8c