U+CE74 "카" Hangul Syllable Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
카
U+CE74 "카" Hangul Syllable Ka is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "ka" in the Korean writing system, Hangul. It is formed by combining the initial consonant character “ㅋ” (chieut, representing an aspirated “k” sound) with the vowel character “ㅏ” (a), which together create a single, indivisible typographic unit at the syllable level. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables that follow a specific algorithmic arrangement based on their initial consonant, medial vowel, and optional final consonant, allowing for efficient representation of Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE74 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ka |
| 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 "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 카 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 카 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE74 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE74 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce74 |