U+CE85 "캅" Hangul Syllable Kab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캅
U+CE85 "캅" Hangul Syllable Kab is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kap" or "kab" as formed by the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅂ (bieup). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet. This specific character is used in the Korean language to write words such as 검은캅 (geom-eunkap, meaning "black kite") or as a syllabic component in compound terms, though it is less common than more frequently appearing syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE85 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kab |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce85 |