U+CCBF "첿" Hangul Syllable Celb Unicode Character
U+CCBF "첿" Hangul Syllable Celb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "celb" or more precisely, a consonant-vowel-consonant combination consisting of the initial consonant 'ㅊ' (chieut), the vowel 'ㅔ' (e), and the final consonant cluster 'ㄼ' (bieup with a lower bieup, pronounced as a labial stop). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables that follow the systematic arrangement defined by the Korean standard KS X 1001 and Unified Hangul Code. As a specific syllable, 첿 may appear in transcriptions or descriptive linguistic texts, though it is not common in everyday Korean vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text in Korean can accurately represent the full phonetic range of the language, including less frequent or compound syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCBF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Celb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 첿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 첿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB2 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCBF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCBF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uccbf |