U+CEF9 "컹" Hangul Syllable Keong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
컹
U+CEF9 "컹" Hangul Syllable Keong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "keong" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet to facilitate digital text processing and display. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean, "컹" can appear in onomatopoeia, loanword transcriptions, or certain dialectal expressions, contributing to the rich phonetic versatility of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEF9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Keong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 컹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 컹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBB 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucef9 |