U+CD38 "촸" Hangul Syllable Cwass Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
촸
U+CD38 "촸" Hangul Syllable Cwass is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot). This specific character represents a sound that would be romanized as "cwass" in the Revised Romanization system, though it is a relatively rare syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing primarily in technical or specialized contexts such as linguistic transcription or transliterations of foreign words. As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, this character is encoded to facilitate digital text representation and processing of the Korean script across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CD38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cwass |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 촸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 촸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB4 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCD38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CD38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucd38 |