U+CE9A "캚" Hangul Syllable Kaelm Unicode Character
U+CE9A "캚" Hangul Syllable Kaelm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄻ" (rieul-mieum). This syllable block is encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables, to facilitate efficient text processing and rendering for the Korean language. While "캚" is a valid and graphically distinguishable character, it is extremely rare in standard Korean vocabulary and is unlikely to appear in everyday usage, instead serving mostly as an example of the systematic arrangement of Hangul jamo into syllabic clusters with complex final double consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE9A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kaelm |
| 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 "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce9a |