U+CEA9 "캩" Hangul Syllable Kaet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캩
U+CEA9 "캩" Hangul Syllable Kaet is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "kaet" formed by the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅐ (ae), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficient text processing. While it is not a common word in everyday Korean vocabulary, it can appear in transliterations of foreign terms or in technical linguistic contexts. As a valid syllable in the Hangul script, it is fully supported in Unicode for use in digital representation of the Korean language across platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEA9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kaet |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucea9 |