U+CF40 "콀" Hangul Syllable Kyel Unicode Character
U+CF40 "콀" Hangul Syllable Kyel is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "kyel," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅖ (ye), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). This syllable is part of the modern Hangul syllabary, which was designed to be a phonetic and systematic writing system for the Korean language. In Korean, "콀" is not a common standalone word in everyday vocabulary but may appear in specialized linguistic contexts, transliterations of foreign terms, or as a component in written compounds. Its inclusion in Unicode underscores the comprehensive encoding of all possible contemporary Hangul syllables, facilitating accurate digital representation and preservation of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF40 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyel |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 콀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 콀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBD 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf40 |