U+CEA5 "캥" Hangul Syllable Kaeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캥
U+CEA5 "캥" Hangul Syllable Kaeng is a single precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic syllable "kaeng" (pronounced like "kang" with a slight glide). It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ᄏ" (khieukh), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung), which together produce a distinct sound used in Korean vocabulary. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range that encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet for efficient text processing and display. In practice, "캥" appears in words such as "캥거루" (kaenggeoru), the Korean term for "kangaroo," making it a recognizable yet less common syllable in everyday usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEA5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kaeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucea5 |