U+CE9B "캛" Hangul Syllable Kaelb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CE9B "캛" Hangul Syllable Kaelb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul block, representing the Korean sound "kaelp" or "kaelb" and formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㄼ (rieul-bieup). This character is part of the systematic Unicode encoding for Korean, which includes thousands of syllables assembled algorithmically from their constituent jamo components. In practical usage, "캛" is an extremely rare syllable that does not commonly appear in standard Korean vocabulary or everyday text, making it primarily relevant for theoretical linguistic studies or specialized typographic applications.

General Properties

Code Point U+CE9B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kaelb
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
"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 캛
HTML Hex Encoding 캛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBA 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCE9B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CE9B
C/C++/Java Escape \uce9b

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