U+CF17 "켗" Hangul Syllable Kec Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CF17 "켗" Hangul Syllable Kec is a precomposed Hangul syllable from the modern Korean alphabet, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅔ (e), and the final consonant ㅊ (chieut). In standard Korean phonology, it represents the sound [kʰetɕʰ] but it is not a commonly used or productive syllable in contemporary Korean vocabulary, appearing primarily in specialized or transliterated contexts. As a precomposed syllable, it is encoded as a single Unicode scalar value to facilitate efficient text processing and compatibility with legacy character sets, following the standard Hangul syllable block arrangement in the Unicode standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+CF17
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kec
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
"ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 켗
HTML Hex Encoding 켗
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBC 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCF17
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CF17
C/C++/Java Escape \ucf17

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