U+CEA7 "캧" Hangul Syllable Kaec Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캧
U+CEA7 "캧" Hangul Syllable Kaec is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk, sounding like a hard 'k'), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae, a sound similar to the 'a' in "cat"), and the final consonant "ㅊ" (chieut, sounding like 'ch' as in "church"). This single character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which efficiently encodes thousands of such syllabic blocks that are fundamental to written Korean, allowing for compact text representation of complex syllable structures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEA7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kaec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEA7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEA7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucea7 |