U+CF3C "켼" Hangul Syllable Kyen Unicode Character
U+CF3C "켼" Hangul Syllable Kyen is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "kyen." It is composed of three jamo components: the initial consonant ᄏ (kieu), the medial vowel ㅖ (ye), and the final consonant ᄂ (nieun), which are combined into a single character for efficient text processing and display. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo according to the standard orthographic rules established for the Korean writing system. In practical usage, U+CF3C appears in Korean text when words or morphemes require the specific pronunciation and spelling of "kyen," though it is not among the most frequently occurring syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF3C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "켸" U+CF38 Hangul Syllable Kye "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf3c |