U+CF08 "켈" Hangul Syllable Kel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
켈
U+CF08 "켈" Hangul Syllable Kel is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kel" as spoken in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), combining these Hangul jamo components into a single, compact character for efficient text processing and display. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in standard Korean orthography to write words and text, such as in the English loanword "켈빈" for the unit Kelvin.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kel |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf08 |