U+CEE8 "컨" Hangul Syllable Keon Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CEE8 "컨" Hangul Syllable Keon is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄴ" (nieun). This syllable is pronounced similarly to the English sound "keon" and is used in Korean text to represent a specific phonetic block, often appearing in words or names. As part of the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations from the Korean alphabet for consistent digital representation across platforms and languages.

General Properties

Code Point U+CEE8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Keon
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "커" U+CEE4 Hangul Syllable Keo
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 컨
HTML Hex Encoding 컨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBB 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCEE8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CEE8
C/C++/Java Escape \ucee8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter