U+CE8D "캍" Hangul Syllable Kat Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캍
U+CE8D "캍" Hangul Syllable Kat is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "kat" formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk) with the vowel "ㅏ" (a) and the final consonant "ㅌ" (tieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters arranged in a syllabic grid. While "캍" is not a commonly used word in everyday Korean vocabulary, it serves as a valid and well-defined linguistic unit within the standardized encoding of the Korean script, primarily used for digital text representation, typesetting, and data processing in Unicode compliant systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE8D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kat |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE8D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE8D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce8d |