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캎

hangul syllable kap

Hangul syllable kap

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캎 is a Hangul syllable block with no established standalone meaning or standard chat-reaction use as of September 2026. A standard Korean two-set keyboard builds it from ㅋ, ㅏ, and ㅍ with Z-K-V. If it arrives alone in chat, ask what the sender intended.

Text symbol

What 캎 means

It has no fixed word meaning on its own.

Hangul is the Korean writing system; its letters, called jamo, combine into square syllable blocks.

캎 follows that pattern: ㅋ starts it, ㅏ is its vowel, and ㅍ ends it.

Why can 캎 appear as three jamo?

Unicode can store the same syllable in two forms.

One is the single precomposed character 캎; the other is the three-jamo sequence ㅋㅏㅍ. Unicode's NFC normalization form keeps the block, while NFD decomposes it. A font or app with full Hangul layout support shows the pieces as one block; incomplete support may leave them separate.

Neutral as a Korean-text example; in chat, a bare syllable has no fixed reading.

Don't read a bare 캎 as a standard reaction.

Who writes 캎

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

The syllable being discussed or entered.

Don't confuse it with

1

ㅋㅏㅍ This is the same intended syllable represented as three separate jamo; a Korean input method can compose them into 캎.

Questions people ask

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Why does 캎 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 캎

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Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType CE8E, then AltX to get 캎.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable kap”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType ce8e, then Enter or Space.
HTML
캎
CSS
\CE8E
Standard two-set Korean keyboard
Switch your input method to Korean and press Z, then K, then V; the keys enter ㅋ, ㅏ, ㅍ and compose 캎.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
캎
HTML hex
캎
CSS content
content: "\CE8E";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%BA%8E
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols