U+CF29 "켩" Hangul Syllable Kyeolt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
켩
U+CF29 "켩" Hangul Syllable Kyeolt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kyeolt" by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk) with the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo) and the final consonant cluster "ㄾ" (rieul thieut). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations in the Korean alphabet as individual characters for efficient text processing and display. While not a high-frequency character in everyday Korean, it may appear in specialized vocabulary, transcriptions of foreign words, or literary contexts where the specific phonetic blend of the syllable is required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF29 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyeolt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF29 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf29 |