U+CE95 "캕" Hangul Syllable Kaenj Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CE95 "캕" Hangul Syllable Kaenj is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (k), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄵ" (nj), which together form the sound "kaenj." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible logically composed syllables of the Korean writing system, and it is encoded as a single character to simplify text processing and display. While "캕" is a valid syllable, it is extremely rare in everyday Korean vocabulary and highlights the completeness of the Unicode Hangul syllabary, which covers even infrequent combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+CE95
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kaenj
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "캐" U+CE90 Hangul Syllable Kae
"ᆬ" U+11AC Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Cieuc

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 캕
HTML Hex Encoding 캕
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBA 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCE95
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CE95
C/C++/Java Escape \uce95

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