U+CF69 "콩" Hangul Syllable Kong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
콩
U+CF69 "콩" Hangul Syllable Kong is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "kong" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅗ (o), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung). This specific character is used in the Korean language to denote the word for "bean" or "soybean," and it appears in everyday vocabulary such as "콩나물" (kongnamul, bean sprouts) and "콩기름" (konggireum, soybean oil). As part of the modern Hangul syllabary, it allows for efficient typographic representation of the language's phonetic syllables without requiring separate composition of individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CF69 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kong |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "코" U+CF54 Hangul Syllable Ko "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 콩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 콩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBD 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCF69 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CF69 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucf69 |