U+CE9B "캛" Hangul Syllable Kaelb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캛
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 |