U+CC59 "챙" Hangul Syllable Caeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
챙
U+CC59 "챙" Hangul Syllable Caeng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "chaeng". It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ieung) as a syllable block, which is a standard structural feature of Hangul. This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in the Korean script based on the Unicode Hangul Composition Algorithm. As a living script element, "챙" can appear in various Korean words and names, contributing to the accurate digital representation and exchange of Korean text across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC59 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Caeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 챙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 챙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc59 |