U+CE7C "칼" Hangul Syllable Kal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
칼
U+CE7C "칼" Hangul Syllable Kal is a precomposed Korean Hangul syllable representing the sound "kal", formed from the consonants ㅋ (kieuk) and ㄹ (rieul) with the vowel ㅏ (a). It functions as a standalone character in the Hangul Syllables block within the Unicode standard, encompassing the entire syllable in a single code point for efficient text processing and display. In the Korean language, this syllable is commonly recognized as the word for "knife" or "sword".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE7C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kal |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE7C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE7C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce7c |