U+CEDC "컜" Hangul Syllable Kyaess Unicode Character
U+CEDC "컜" Hangul Syllable Kyaess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "kyaess." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ᄏ (khieukh, aspirated "k") with the medial vowel ᅣ (ya, a "y" and "a" combination) and the final consonant ᆻ (ssang siot, a double "s" indicating a tense consonant sound). This specific syllable is part of the extensive Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which systematically encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet based on the leading consonant, medial vowel, and optional trailing consonant structure. In contemporary usage, such a syllable may appear in transliterations, foreign loanwords, or specialized linguistic texts, though it is less common in everyday Korean vocabulary due to the infrequent combination of an aspirated stop with a "ya" glide and a tense final consonant cluster.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CEDC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Kyaess |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "컈" U+CEC8 Hangul Syllable Kyae "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 컜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 컜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xBB 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCEDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CEDC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucedc |