U+CCAB "첫" Hangul Syllable Ceos Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
첫
U+CCAB "첫" Hangul Syllable Ceos is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "cheot." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅅ (siot). This syllable is commonly used in the Korean language, most notably as the first syllable in the word "첫 번째" (cheot beonjjae), meaning "first" or "the first time," making it a fundamental component for expressing sequence and priority in Korean writing and speech.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCAB |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceos |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uccab |