U+CE76 "칶" Hangul Syllable Kagg Unicode Character
U+CE76 "칶" Hangul Syllable Kagg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kagg" as a combination of the initial consonant "k" (in Korean, the letter ㄱ), the vowel "a" (ㅏ), and the final double consonant "gg" (ㄲ). This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes complete syllable blocks rather than individual jamo components, allowing for efficient text processing and display. While it is a valid, defined character in the Unicode standard, "칶" is an extremely rare or nonce syllable in actual Korean language usage, as most common Korean syllables do not include this specific phonetic combination, and it may only appear in specialized contexts such as linguistic studies or historical orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE76 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kagg |
| 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 "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE76 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE76 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce76 |