U+CEAC "캬" Hangul Syllable Kya Unicode Character
U+CEAC "캬" Hangul Syllable Kya is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kya" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk) and the vowel "ㅑ" (ya). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was encoded to support the efficient representation of the thousands of phonetic syllables that make up the Korean language. In practical use, "캬" appears in various Korean words and expressions, such as the onomatopoeic "캬캬" (kyakya) for laughter or the beginning of the word "캬라멜" (kyaramel), meaning caramel. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital systems can render this syllable consistently across different platforms for Korean text processing and communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEAC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kya |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄏ" U+110F Hangul Choseong Khieukh "ᅣ" U+1163 Hangul Jungseong Ya |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEAC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uceac |