U+CEAA "캪" Hangul Syllable Kaep Unicode Character
U+CEAA "캪" Hangul Syllable Kaep is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kaep." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄏ (which is the aspirated version of the basic consonant for "k"), the vowel ᅢ (ae), and the final consonant ᆸ (p). In the Unicode standard, this character was added as part of the Hangul Syllables block at version 2.0 in 1996 to efficiently encode all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet, allowing for compact text representation. While not a very common syllable in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it can appear in words or names, and its structure follows the systematic composition of initial, medial, and final jamo elements that define the logical layout of Hangul.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEAA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kaep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uceaa |