U+CCAD "청" Hangul Syllable Ceong Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
청
U+CCAD "청" Hangul Syllable Ceong is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "cheong" as in the English "ch" followed by "uhng." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the medial vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), and it carries cultural significance as a common component in Korean words, such as "청소" (cheongso, meaning cleaning) or "청년" (cheongnyeon, meaning youth). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet for efficient digital text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCAD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceong |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 청 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 청 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCAD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCAD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uccad |