U+CCB2 "첲" Hangul Syllable Ceop Unicode Character
U+CCB2 "첲" Hangul Syllable Ceop is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant 'ㅊ' (chieut), the medial vowel 'ㅓ' (eo), and the final consonant 'ㅍ' (pieup). It represents a single syllabic block pronounced as "cheop" in standard Korean, with the 'ㅊ' sound akin to the English "ch" in "chip", the 'ㅓ' vowel similar to the "u" in "cup", and a final 'ㅍ' that is an unreleased bilabial stop. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet, and is used in written Korean to denote specific vocabulary or grammatical forms, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday modern texts compared to more frequent syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCB2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceop |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCB2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCB2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uccb2 |