U+CE98 "캘" Hangul Syllable Kael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+CE98 "캘" Hangul Syllable Kael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "kael" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). It belongs to the Unicode block for Hangul Syllables, which was introduced to support efficient encoding of the thousands of possible syllable blocks in the Korean alphabet. In contemporary usage, this syllable can appear in various contexts, including transliterations of foreign words like "Kael" (as a given name) or in native Korean vocabulary. The character is displayed as a single glyph in most Unicode compliant text rendering systems, adhering to the standard syllabic structure of Korean writing.
General Properties
Code Point
U+CE98
Name
Hangul Syllable Kael
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
캘
HTML Hex Encoding
캘
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEC 0xBA 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0xCE98
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000CE98
C/C++/Java Escape
\uce98
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hangul