U+CEB3 "캳" Hangul Syllable Kyad Unicode Character
U+CEB3 "캳" Hangul Syllable Kyad is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of an initial consonant, a medial vowel, and a final consonant. Specifically, it is formed from the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㄷ (digeut), creating the sound "kyad" as pronounced in Korean. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks in the Korean writing system, allowing for efficient text processing and display. While the syllable "캳" is a valid orthographic unit, it is an infrequently used form, as most Korean syllables ending with a consonant cluster or specific final consonants like ㄷ are relatively rare in everyday vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEB3 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyad |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "캬" U+CEAC Hangul Syllable Kya "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캳 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캳 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEB3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEB3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uceb3 |