U+CE98 "캘" Hangul Syllable Kael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캘
U+CE98 "캘" Hangul Syllable Kael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kael" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). It belongs to the Unicode block for Hangul Syllables, which was introduced to support efficient encoding of the thousands of possible syllable blocks in the Korean alphabet. In contemporary usage, this syllable can appear in various contexts, including transliterations of foreign words like "Kael" (as a given name) or in native Korean vocabulary. The character is displayed as a single glyph in most Unicode compliant text rendering systems, adhering to the standard syllabic structure of Korean writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE98 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce98 |