U+CEA4 "캤" Hangul Syllable Kaess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CEA4 "캤" Hangul Syllable Kaess is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kaess." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅆ (ssang shiot), which together create a syllable used in the Korean language to write words or morphemes that require a double final consonant, such as in historical or literary contexts. This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which systematically encodes all possible combinations of Hangul jamo (letters) to facilitate digital text processing and representation of modern and classical Korean.

General Properties

Code Point U+CEA4
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Kaess
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 캤
HTML Hex Encoding 캤
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xBA 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCEA4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CEA4
C/C++/Java Escape \ucea4

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