U+CC50 "챐" Hangul Syllable Caels Unicode Character
U+CC50 "챐" Hangul Syllable Caels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from Korean jamo characters in a systematic order. While "챐" itself is not a common word in standard Korean vocabulary, it illustrates the structural completeness of Hangul’s syllabic block system, where each syllable is a unique encoded entity. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent the full range of theoretically possible pronunciation combinations in Korean, even those rarely used.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC50 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Caels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 챐 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 챐 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB1 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC50 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC50 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc50 |