U+CC4D "챍" Hangul Syllable Caelg Unicode Character
U+CC4D "챍" Hangul Syllable Caelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used to write the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (rieul-giyeok), resulting in the sound "caelk" or "chaek" depending on dialectal variation. Although it is a valid and encoded syllable within the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which organizes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into a unified range, "챍" is considered rare or obsolete in everyday Korean usage and does not commonly appear in standard vocabulary or contemporary texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures complete coverage for historical documents, linguistic analysis, or specialized applications requiring accurate representation of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC4D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Caelg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "채" U+CC44 Hangul Syllable Cae "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 챍 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 챍 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB1 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC4D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC4D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc4d |