U+CC87 "첇" Hangul Syllable Cyaelb Unicode Character
U+CC87 "첇" Hangul Syllable Cyaelb is a modern Korean syllable composed of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (rieul-bieup), which represents the sound "chyaelb" in the Revised Romanization of Korean. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, specifically encoded as a precomposed syllable rather than a sequence of individual jamo characters, to facilitate efficient text processing and typographic display. In Korean writing, this syllable does not correspond to a common word in standard Modern Korean vocabulary, but it exists within the full set of theoretically possible syllabic combinations, demonstrating the systematic and combinatorial nature of the Hangul writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC87 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyaelb |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "챼" U+CC7C Hangul Syllable Cyae "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC87 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC87 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc87 |