U+CE8E "캎" Hangul Syllable Kap Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CE8E "캎" Hangul Syllable Kap is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kap" as a single block character. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅋ" (khieuk), the medial vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (phieup), and as a precomposed Hangul syllable, it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which was designed to facilitate the digital representation of Korean text by encoding complete syllable clusters rather than requiring compositional rendering.

General Properties

Code Point U+CE8E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kap
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
"ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 캎
HTML Hex Encoding 캎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBA 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCE8E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CE8E
C/C++/Java Escape \uce8e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter