U+CC2C "찬" Hangul Syllable Can Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
찬
U+CC2C "찬" Hangul Syllable Can is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "chan" as it combines the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) with the vowel ㅏ (a) and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo characters into single code points for efficient digital text processing. This particular syllable is commonly used in Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "찬물" (chanmul, meaning cold water) and "찬송가" (chansongga, meaning hymn).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC2C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Can |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "차" U+CC28 Hangul Syllable Ca "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 찬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 찬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB0 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc2c |