U+CC8A "첊" Hangul Syllable Cyaelp Unicode Character
U+CC8A "첊" Hangul Syllable Cyaelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic value of "cyaelp." It is constructed from the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (rieul-pieup), which together form a single syllabic block. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables of the Korean alphabet as individual code points to facilitate efficient text processing. While "첊" is a valid syllable according to Hangul orthography, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, as the combination of its components rarely appears in practical language use beyond theoretical or typographic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC8A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyaelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc8a |