U+CEA3 "캣" Hangul Syllable Kaes Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캣
U+CEA3 "캣" Hangul Syllable Kaes is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "kaes." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (siot), and is widely used in the Korean language for words such as "캣" meaning "cat" when transcribing English loanwords. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses the complete set of 11,172 possible syllables that can be created from the Korean alphabet, facilitating accurate digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEA3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kaes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캣 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캣 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEA3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEA3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucea3 |