U+CCA8 "첨" Hangul Syllable Ceom Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
첨
U+CCA8 "첨" Hangul Syllable Ceom is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "cheom". It is constructed from the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum), and it appears within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode (U+AC00 to U+D7AF). In Korean usage, this syllable is commonly found in words such as "첨부" (cheombu, meaning "attachment") and "첨단" (cheomdan, meaning "cutting edge" or "advanced"), reflecting its practical role in both everyday and technical vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceom |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucca8 |