U+CE79 "칹" Hangul Syllable Kanj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
칹
U+CE79 "칹" Hangul Syllable Kanj is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean block character formed from the initial consonant ㅋ, the vowel ㅏ, and the final consonant ㅈ. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean alphabet letters in a single code point for efficient text processing. As a modern Hangul syllable, it does not correspond to a commonly used word in standard Korean vocabulary, but it exists to ensure complete coverage of the writing system. This character is primarily used in digital text representation, allowing computers to display the syllable correctly without requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE79 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kanj |
| 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 "ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE79 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce79 |