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Commercially available \u03b2-SiC and TaC powders were chosen as raw materials. Electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) analysis was conducted to investigate the grain boundary mapping of SiC-TaC composite ceramics. With the increase in TaC, the misorientation angles of the \u03b1-SiC phase shifted to a relatively small range. It was deduced that the ex situ pinning stress from TaC greatly suppressed the growth of \u03b1-SiC grains. The low \u03b2\u2192\u03b1 transformability of the specimen with the composition of SiC-20 vol.% TaC (ST-4) implied that a possible microstructure of newly nucleated \u03b1-SiC embedded within metastable \u03b2-SiC grains, which could have been responsible for the improvement in strength and fracture toughness. 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