U+CEF7 "컷" Hangul Syllable Keos Unicode Character
U+CEF7 "컷" Hangul Syllable Keos is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul orthography used to write the Korean language, representing the sound “keos” as a combination of the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot). This specific syllable does not commonly form a standalone word in standard Korean, but it appears as a component in various lexical contexts or informal transliterations, such as in the loanword “컷” (keot) meaning “cut” in photography or editing. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, it is encapsulated as a single coded character for efficient text processing, reflecting the systematic construction of Korean syllabic blocks where each element contributes to the overall phonetic value.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEF7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Keos |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 컷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 컷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBB 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEF7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEF7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucef7 |