U+CCA0 "철" Hangul Syllable Ceol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
철
U+CCA0 "철" Hangul Syllable Ceol is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "cheol" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block used to encode the modern Korean writing system. This character is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) with the vowel ㅓ (eo) and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), resulting in a single codepoint that facilitates text processing in digital environments. It is commonly used in Korean words, such as 철 (cheol) meaning "iron" or "steel," and 철학 (cheolhak) meaning "philosophy," reflecting its practical role in representing both concrete and abstract concepts in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCA0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 철 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 철 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCA0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCA0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucca0 |