U+CC98 "처" Hangul Syllable Ceo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
처
U+CC98 "처" Hangul Syllable Ceo is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "cheo" as in the word "처음" (cheoeum, meaning "first"). It is formed from the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) and the vertical vowel ㅓ (eo), and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. This character is commonly used in modern Korean writing for both native vocabulary and Sino-Korean loanwords, and it appears in many everyday words such as "처리" (cheori, "process") and "처방" (cheobang, "prescription").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC98 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄎ" U+110E Hangul Choseong Chieuch "ᅥ" U+1165 Hangul Jungseong Eo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 처 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 처 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc98 |