U+CF1D "켝" Hangul Syllable Kyeog Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
켝
U+CF1D "켝" Hangul Syllable Kyeog is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk, sounding like an aspirated 'k'), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo, similar to 'yuh'), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok, a 'g' or 'k' sound), resulting in a sound close to "kyeok." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which organizes the Korean alphabet into individual blocks for each syllable, enabling efficient text processing and display. It is used in written Korean to represent words or morphemes that contain this specific syllable, contributing to the rich phonetic structure of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF1D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyeog |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "켜" U+CF1C Hangul Syllable Kyeo "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF1D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf1d |