U+CFD6 "쿖" Hangul Syllable Kyobs Unicode Character
U+CFD6 "쿖" Hangul Syllable Kyobs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "kyeo" (ㅋ with a y sound), the central vowel "o" (ㅗ), and the final consonant "bs" (ㅄ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, it is one of thousands of such composite characters designed to encode complete Korean syllables in a single code point for efficient text processing. This specific syllable, while rare in contemporary usage, demonstrates the systematic structure of the Hangul writing system, where individual letters (jamo) are combined into blocks representing distinct sounds. The character is fully supported in modern Unicode fonts and environments that handle the Korean script, enabling its correct display and processing in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CFD6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyobs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쿄" U+CFC4 Hangul Syllable Kyo "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쿖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쿖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBF 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCFD6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CFD6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucfd6 |