U+CC2C "찬" Hangul Syllable Can Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter