U+CF38 "켸" Hangul Syllable Kye Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
켸
U+CF38 "켸" Hangul Syllable Kye is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the sound "kye" as used in the Korean language, where it is formed from the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk) and the vowel "ㅖ" (ye). This specific syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants as single code points for efficient text processing. While "켸" itself is not among the most frequently used syllables in everyday Korean, it appears in certain loanwords or technical contexts, and its presence in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation and rendering across systems that support the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kye |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh "ᅨ" U+1168 Hangul Jungseong Ye |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf38 |