U+CC8F "첏" Hangul Syllable Cyaes Unicode Character
U+CC8F "첏" Hangul Syllable Cyaes is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "cyaes" formed by the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅒ" (yae), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (siot). This character is part of the modern Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was introduced to encode the thousands of possible syllable blocks that combine Korean jamo components into single, displayable characters. While "첏" is a valid Hangul syllable according to the rules of Korean orthography, it is not a commonly used word in standard Korean vocabulary, primarily appearing in specialized or phonetic contexts. Its encoding in Unicode ensures that digital text can accurately represent all formally constructed Hangul syllables for consistent processing and display across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC8F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyaes |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첏 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첏 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc8f |