U+CCC8 "쳈" Hangul Syllable Cess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쳈
U+CCC8 "쳈" Hangul Syllable Cess is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "cess" which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) with the vowel ㅔ (e) and the final consonant ㅆ (ssangssiot). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, a range that encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations in standard Korean orthography based on the principle of initial, medial, and final letters. It is used in written Korean for words that contain this specific syllable, contributing to the precise representation of the language's sound structure in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCC8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쳈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쳈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB3 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uccc8 |