U+CF16 "켖" Hangul Syllable Kej Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
켖
U+CF16 "켖" Hangul Syllable Kej is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅋ” (kieuk), the vowel “ㅔ” (e), and the final consonant “ㅈ” (jieut). This syllable represents the sound "kej" and is part of the extensive Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing. While not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary, it can appear in certain words or contexts, demonstrating the systematic nature of Hangul's orthography where each syllable block is arranged left-to-right and top-to-bottom within a square-like structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF16 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf16 |