U+CEBC "캼" Hangul Syllable Kyam Unicode Character
U+CEBC "캼" Hangul Syllable Kyam is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "kyam" as a single block. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅋ (kieuk), the medial vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), all of which are encoded as separate jamo characters in Unicode but are composed into this single codepoint for text processing and display. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was designed to provide a complete set of all possible precomposed syllable blocks used in the Korean language. Its inclusion simplifies tasks such as sorting, searching, and rendering Korean text by ensuring each syllable is treated as a single unit rather than a sequence of individual jamo.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEBC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 캼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 캼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBA 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEBC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEBC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucebc |