U+CF42 "콂" Hangul Syllable Kyelm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
콂
U+CF42 "콂" Hangul Syllable Kyelm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic compound "kyeolm" which is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅖ" (ye), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (rieul-mieut). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, where it is encoded as a single precomposed glyph for efficient text processing and display. As a valid syllable in the Korean script, U+CF42 is used in written Korean to represent specific lexical items such as the noun "껌" meaning "gum" or "chewing gum," though its actual usage frequency reflects the constraints of the particular consonant and vowel combination it encodes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF42 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 콂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 콂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBD 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf42 |