U+CC4E "챎" Hangul Syllable Caelm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CC4E "챎" Hangul Syllable Caelm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ch" (ㅊ), the medial vowel "ae" (ㅐ), and the final consonant "lm" (ㄻ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from the basic Jamo letters of the Korean alphabet. Used primarily in written Korean, this specific syllable does not appear frequently in common vocabulary but demonstrates the systematic and modular nature of Hangul, where individual letters are combined into compact blocks that correspond to distinct syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+CC4E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Caelm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 챎
HTML Hex Encoding 챎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xB1 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCC4E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CC4E
C/C++/Java Escape \ucc4e

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