U+CCA5 "첥" Hangul Syllable Ceolt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
첥
U+CCA5 "첥" Hangul Syllable Ceolt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing a phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (ch), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (lt). This syllable is formed algorithmically under Unicode's standard for encoding Korean Hangul, which maps thousands of possible syllables to distinct code points to facilitate efficient digital text processing. While "첥" is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to the rules of Hangul orthography, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary and may appear primarily in specialized contexts such as rare personal names, linguistic examples, or historical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCA5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceolt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucca5 |