U+CD2E "촮" Hangul Syllable Cwalm Unicode Character
U+CD2E "촮" Hangul Syllable Cwalm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅊ” (chieut), the medial vowel “ㅘ” (wa), and the final consonant “ㄻ” (rieul-mieum). This syllable, pronounced approximately as “chwalm,” is one of thousands of such blocks encoded in the Hangul Syllables range of Unicode, which allows for the efficient digital representation of the Korean language without needing to combine individual jamo characters in real time. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable according to Hangul orthography, it is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, making it a rare or specialized example within the broader set of possible syllable combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CD2E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cwalm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "촤" U+CD24 Hangul Syllable Cwa "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 촮 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 촮 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB4 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCD2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CD2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucd2e |