U+CEB4 "캴" Hangul Syllable Kyal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
캴
U+CEB4 "캴" Hangul Syllable Kyal is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kyal." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a single codepoint for efficient text processing. While not among the most common syllables in modern Korean, it may appear in certain words, transcriptions of foreign terms, or poetic contexts, demonstrating the systematic and modular nature of the Hangul script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEB4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyal |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uceb4 |