U+CEE4 "커" Hangul Syllable Keo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
커
U+CEE4 "커" Hangul Syllable Keo is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul alphabet, representing the sound "keo" as in the English word "curl." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk, equivalent to "k") with the vowel ㅓ (eo, a mid-back unrounded vowel), and it occupies a specific codepoint in the Unicode Standard's Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to encode all possible modern Korean syllables for efficient text processing and display. This character is widely used in Korean writing, appearing in common words such as 커피 (keopi, meaning "coffee") and 커다란 (keodaran, meaning "huge").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEE4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Keo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh "ᅥ" U+1165 Hangul Jungseong Eo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 커 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 커 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBB 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucee4 |