U+D0B9 "킹" Hangul Syllable King Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
킹
U+D0B9 "킹" Hangul Syllable King is a precomposed syllable used in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "king." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (k) with the vowel "ㅣ" (i) and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng), and it is the direct Korean transliteration and adaptation of the English word "king." As part of the Hangul Syllables block, this character is widely used in South Korea and North Korea for both native and borrowed vocabulary, and it often appears in contexts related to monarchy, chess pieces in Korean, or branding and popular culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+D0B9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable King |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 킹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 킹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xED 0x82 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD0B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000D0B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud0b9 |