U+CECE "컎" Hangul Syllable Kyaenh Unicode Character
U+CECE "컎" Hangul Syllable Kyaenh is a precomposed character from the Hangul Syllables block, representing the Korean syllable formed by the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㄶ" (nh). This syllable is notable because it is extremely rare in modern Korean, as the combination of the aspirated "k" sound with the "yae" vowel and the final "nh" cluster does not naturally occur in standard Korean vocabulary. As such, "컎" is primarily a theoretical or historical construct within the Unicode standard, useful for representing the full range of possible Hangul syllables in legacy texts or linguistic analysis rather than in everyday writing. Its inclusion ensures completeness in encoding all 11,172 possible Hangul syllable combinations as defined by the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CECE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyaenh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "컈" U+CEC8 Hangul Syllable Kyae "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 컎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 컎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBB 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCECE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CECE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucece |