U+CC55 "챕" Hangul Syllable Caeb Unicode Character
U+CC55 "챕" Hangul Syllable Caeb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "chaeb" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single, self-contained character for efficient text processing and display. This specific syllable, though not among the most frequent in everyday Korean vocabulary, can be found in certain native or loanwords and demonstrates the systematic, block-like structure of Hangul where each character phonetically maps to a distinct syllable. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital representation, storage, and rendering of Korean text across modern software and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC55 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Caeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 챕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 챕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB1 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc55 |