U+CE8C "캌" Hangul Syllable Kak Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캌
U+CE8C "캌" Hangul Syllable Kak is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kak" as a single typographic unit. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), following the standard rules of Hangul syllable block construction. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to facilitate digital text processing by providing a complete set of all possible syllabic combinations for the Korean language, thus avoiding the need for dynamic composition from individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE8C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce8c |