U+CC36 "찶" Hangul Syllable Calp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CC36 "찶" Hangul Syllable Calp is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅊ” (chieut), the vowel “ㅏ” (a), and the final consonant “ㄹㅍ” (lieul plus pieup) as a single syllable block. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables used for standard Korean text. Its specific pronunciation, “Calp”, is relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary, primarily appearing in specialized or compound words where the final consonant cluster “ㄹㅍ” occurs, such as in the word “참찹” (chamchap) or certain Hanja-derived terms.

General Properties

Code Point U+CC36
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Calp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 찶
HTML Hex Encoding 찶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xB0 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCC36
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CC36
C/C++/Java Escape \ucc36

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