U+CCB8 "첸" Hangul Syllable Cen Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
첸
U+CCB8 "첸" Hangul Syllable Cen is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic blend of the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) and the medial vowel ㅔ (e), followed by the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations formed from the Korean alphabet in a standardized order. It is used in writing the Korean language to represent the sound “chen,” as in the word 첸 (Chon), often seen in personal names or loanwords from other languages. The precomposed form streamlines text processing and display, ensuring consistent rendering across different digital platforms and fonts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCB8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cen |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "체" U+CCB4 Hangul Syllable Ce "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCB8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCB8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uccb8 |