U+CD49 "쵉" Hangul Syllable Cwaelg Unicode Character
U+CD49 "쵉" Hangul Syllable Cwaelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (ch), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed by Korean jamo characters, and its canonical decomposition into its constituent jamo components (U+CC2C "ᄎ", U+315C "ᅫ", and U+11AF "ᆯ" followed by U+11A8 "ᄀ") allows for normalization and processing in text systems. The syllable "쵉" is not common in everyday Korean vocabulary but illustrates the systematic nature of Hangul's syllabic writing system, where each block combines initial, medial, and final sounds into a single visual character.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CD49 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cwaelg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쵀" U+CD40 Hangul Syllable Cwae "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쵉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쵉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB5 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCD49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CD49 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucd49 |