U+CC8C "첌" Hangul Syllable Cyaem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
첌
U+CC8C "첌" Hangul Syllable Cyaem is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "cyaem" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the modern Korean alphabet in a single character for efficient text processing. The syllable "첌" itself is not common in modern Korean vocabulary and is typically considered a rare or obsolete form, though it demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul syllable construction where each character combines three phonetic components into one visual block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC8C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyaem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc8c |