U+CE75 "칵" Hangul Syllable Kag Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CE75 "칵" Hangul Syllable Kag is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "kag," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk) with the vowel ㅏ (a) and the final consonant ㄱ (giyeok). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode the vast number of possible syllable blocks in the Korean writing system, allowing for efficient digital text processing and display. When used in modern Korean, this syllable appears relatively infrequently compared to more common syllables, but it may be encountered in words like "칵테일" (cocktail) or in onomatopoeic expressions, serving as a functional component of the language's phonetic and written structure.

General Properties

Code Point U+CE75
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kag
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "카" U+CE74 Hangul Syllable Ka
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 칵
HTML Hex Encoding 칵
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xB9 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCE75
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CE75
C/C++/Java Escape \uce75

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter