U+CF00 "케" Hangul Syllable Ke Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CF00 "케" Hangul Syllable Ke is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "ke" as in the English word "kay." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅔ (e), and does not include a final consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet, and it is used in standard Korean text to form words such as 케잌 (keik, meaning "cake") or other loanwords and native terms.

General Properties

Code Point U+CF00
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Ke
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
"ᅦ" U+1166 Hangul Jungseong E

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 케
HTML Hex Encoding 케
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBC 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCF00
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CF00
C/C++/Java Escape \ucf00

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV 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=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter