U+CF1E "켞" Hangul Syllable Kyeogg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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