U+CEC4 "컄" Hangul Syllable Kyak Unicode Character
U+CEC4 "컄" Hangul Syllable Kyak is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the sound "kyak." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄏ (kieuk, representing the 'k' sound with aspiration) with the medial vowel ᅣ (ya), and the final consonant ᆨ (rieuk, a place-holding final consonant that actually represents the final 'k' sound, as this syllable uses the same consonant for both initial and final in its written form). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it encodes a single, complete syllable rather than requiring separate code points for each jamo component, which allows for efficient text processing in digital environments. This character is used in Korean text to write words or morphemes that contain this specific syllable, contributing to the accurate representation of the Korean language in computing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEC4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyak |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 컄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 컄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBB 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEC4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEC4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucec4 |