U+CE7E "칾" Hangul Syllable Kalm Unicode Character
U+CE7E "칾" Hangul Syllable Kalm is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (rieul-mieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to efficiently encode the thousands of possible syllable blocks used in written Korean, allowing for direct textual representation without requiring complex rendering of individual jamo components. The syllable "칾" is not a common word in standard Korean vocabulary, but its encoding ensures that any valid Hangul syllable, regardless of frequency, has a unique and stable digital identity for use in text processing, storage, and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE7E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kalm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칾 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칾 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE7E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE7E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce7e |