U+CEA8 "캨" Hangul Syllable Kaek Unicode Character
U+CEA8 "캨" Hangul Syllable Kaek is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅋ (kieuk) as a batchim. This syllable represents the sound "kaek" and is one of thousands of possible Hangul syllables encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital text rendering for the Korean language. While "캨" is a valid and structurally complete Hangul syllable, it is not a commonly used word in contemporary Korean, appearing more as a phonetic building block for specific vocabulary or as a component in onomatopoeia. Its encoding ensures that Korean texts containing this syllable can be correctly displayed, searched, and processed across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kaek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucea8 |