U+CF1E "켞" Hangul Syllable Kyeogg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
켞
U+CF1E "켞" Hangul Syllable Kyeogg is a precomposed Hangul syllable in the Unicode standard, representing a single block of the Korean writing system. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant cluster "ㄲ" (ssang giyeok), resulting in the phonetic value of "kyeogg." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the modern Korean alphabet, making it essential for digital text processing in Korean. While not a common syllable in everyday vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and comprehensive nature of Unicode's coverage of the Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF1E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyeogg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF1E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF1E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf1e |