U+CEE0 "컠" Hangul Syllable Kyaek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
컠
U+CEE0 "컠" Hangul Syllable Kyaek is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk, pronounced as an aspirated 'k'), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae, a 'ya' sound similar to the 'ye' in "yes" but shorter), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk again, acting as a final consonant or batchim pronounced as a stopped 'k'). As part of the Hangul Syllables block (AC00-D7AF), this character was introduced in Unicode 2.0 to encode precomposed syllables, which are the standard form of Korean text, allowing for proper digital representation and rendering of the syllable "kyaek" in modern Korean typography and computing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEE0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyaek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 컠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 컠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBB 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucee0 |