U+CF04 "켄" Hangul Syllable Ken Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
켄
U+CF04 "켄" Hangul Syllable Ken is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "ken" formed from the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk) and the vowel ㅔ (e). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, specifically encoded in the range from U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which contains 11,172 syllables arranged in a systematic order based on the Korean alphabet. This character is used in the modern Korean writing system for the standard language, appearing in various words and names to convey the phonetic value of the syllable "ken" in written text and digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF04 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ken |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "케" U+CF00 Hangul Syllable Ke "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf04 |