U+D0B8 "킸" Hangul Syllable Kiss Unicode Character
U+D0B8 "킸" Hangul Syllable Kiss is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kiss" or more precisely, the consonant "k" combined with the vowel "i" and the final consonant "ss" as a single block. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which encompasses 11,172 preformed syllable blocks that were added to the standard to facilitate efficient text processing and display for the Korean language. The syllable "킸" is formed by joining the initial letter "ᄏ" (the consonant kiyeok), the vowel "ᅵ" (i), and the final consonant "ᆻ" (a double ssang shiot), and while it is a valid and well-formed Hangul syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, often appearing instead in specialized contexts such as linguistic notation or transliterations of foreign words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D0B8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kiss |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "키" U+D0A4 Hangul Syllable Ki "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 킸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 킸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x82 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD0B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D0B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud0b8 |