U+CCE8 "쳨" Hangul Syllable Cyeok Unicode Character
U+CCE8 "쳨" Hangul Syllable Cyeok is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "Cyeok," which combines the initial consonant "C" (a variation of the Korean letter ㅊ, representing an aspirated "ch" sound) with the vowel "Ye" (ㅖ) and the final consonant "K" (ㄱ). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, encoded to efficiently represent the systematic and syllabic nature of the Korean writing system, where consonants and vowels are arranged in square blocks. It is considered a relatively rare syllable used in modern Korean, primarily appearing in historical or specialized contexts rather than in everyday vocabulary, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures proper digital rendering and text processing for the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CCE8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyeok |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쳐" U+CCD0 Hangul Syllable Cyeo "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쳨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쳨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB3 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCCE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CCE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucce8 |