U+CE8E "캎" Hangul Syllable Kap Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캎
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 |