U+CE9C "캜" Hangul Syllable Kaels Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CE9C "캜" Hangul Syllable Kaels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul orthography used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅋ” (kieuk), the medial vowel “ㅐ” (ae), and the final consonant “ㄹㅅ” (rieul-siot) as a consonant cluster. This specific syllable represents the phonetic value “kaels” and is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all possible syllabic combinations in the Korean writing system.

General Properties

Code Point U+CE9C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kaels
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
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 캜
HTML Hex Encoding 캜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBA 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCE9C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CE9C
C/C++/Java Escape \uce9c

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