U+CD08 "초" Hangul Syllable Co Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
초
U+CD08 "초" Hangul Syllable Co is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "cho" or "co," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) with the vowel ㅗ (o). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes syllabic blocks that are the building blocks of the modern Korean writing system. It is used in the Korean language to write words such as 초 (cho), meaning "candle" or "beginning," and is an essential component for accurate digital text rendering and communication in Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CD08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Co |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄎ" U+110E Hangul Choseong Chieuch "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 초 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 초 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB4 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCD08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CD08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucd08 |