U+CF54 "코" Hangul Syllable Ko Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
코
U+CF54 "코" Hangul Syllable Ko is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the sound "ko" as in the English word "core." It is formed by combining the initial consonant letter ᄏ (kieuk, representing a aspirated /kʰ/ sound) and the vertical vowel letter ᅩ (o, representing a /o/ sound) into a single block, which is the standard method for writing Korean syllables. This character appears in various Korean words, such as "코" meaning "nose," and is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which includes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF54 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ko |
| 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 "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 코 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 코 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBD 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf54 |