U+CC58 "챘" Hangul Syllable Caess Unicode Character
U+CC58 "챘" Hangul Syllable Caess is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot) as a trailing double s sound. This specific syllable, pronounced something like "chaess" in English approximation, belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllables formed by Hangul jamo letters in a single character code for efficient text processing and rendering. The character is used in written Korean to spell words that require this particular syllable, contributing to the comprehensive coverage of the language's syllabic inventory within the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Caess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 챘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 챘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB1 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc58 |