U+CF22 "켢" Hangul Syllable Kyeonh Unicode Character
U+CF22 "켢" Hangul Syllable Kyeonh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅕ (yeo), and the final consonant ㄶ (nieun-hieuh). As part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), it was encoded in Unicode version 2.0 in 1996 to allow for efficient digital representation of the thousands of possible syllable blocks in Korean. The syllable is pronounced approximately as "kyeohn" with a tense initial sound, and while it is a valid and theoretically constructible syllable, it is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary, primarily serving to demonstrate the systematic completeness of the Hangul writing system rather than appearing in common words or usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF22 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyeonh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf22 |