U+CCCE "쳎" Hangul Syllable Cep Unicode Character
U+CCCE "쳎" Hangul Syllable Cep is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul (Korean alphabet) writing system, representing the phonetic sound "cep" as a single character block. It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the vowel "ㅔ" (e), and the final consonant "ㅍ" (pieup), which are combined in a standard syllable structure. This character is part of the vast Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate text processing and display for the Korean language. The syllable "쳎" is not a particularly common or frequently used word in Korean, but it is valid and can appear in specialized vocabulary, transliterations, or linguistic contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital systems can correctly represent and render this specific Korean syllable without needing to dynamically combine individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCCE |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cep |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쳎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쳎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB3 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCCE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uccce |