U+CC9C "천" Hangul Syllable Ceon Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
천
U+CC9C "천" Hangul Syllable Ceon is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "cheon," which is a combination of the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) and the medial vowel ㅓ (eo) followed by the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). In modern Korean, this character frequently appears in words such as "천국" (cheonguk, meaning heaven) and "천사" (cheonsa, meaning angel), and it is a common element in names, place names, and everyday vocabulary. The syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CC9C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceon |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "처" U+CC98 Hangul Syllable Ceo "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 천 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 천 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCC9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CC9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucc9c |