U+CF04 "켄" Hangul Syllable Ken Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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