U+CF3E "켾" Hangul Syllable Kyenh Unicode Character
U+CF3E "켾" Hangul Syllable Kyenh is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "kyenh", formed from an initial consonant (often romanized as 'k' or 'g' depending on context), the vowel 'ye', and the final consonant 'nh'. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables designed to represent every possible combination of initial, medial, and final jamo characters in the Korean writing system. This specific syllable is used in written Korean for certain loanwords or dialectical expressions, though it is relatively rare in modern standard Korean vocabulary compared to more common syllables like those starting with the same initial consonant but followed by different vowels.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF3E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyenh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 켾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 켾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBC 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf3e |