U+CF2C "켬" Hangul Syllable Kyeom Unicode Character
U+CF2C "켬" Hangul Syllable Kyeom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kyeom." This syllable is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅕ" (yeo), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), which together create the phonetic block that corresponds to the romanization "kyeom." It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which contains all possible syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet. While this specific syllable is not among the most commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it can appear in various words and proper nouns, such as in the place name "겸" (gyeom) with similar sound or in certain compound terms. The character is encoded as a single code point to facilitate efficient text processing and display in Unicode-supported systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF2C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyeom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf2c |