U+CD56 "쵖" Hangul Syllable Cwaej Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쵖
U+CD56 "쵖" Hangul Syllable Cwaej is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (jieut). This syllable represents a specific phonetic sound used in Korean language typography and digital text encoding, falling within the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) which was introduced in Unicode version 2.0 to efficiently encode all possible Korean syllable combinations. Though a rare or context specific character, "쵖" demonstrates the systematic orthographic structure of Hangul, where each syllable block is constructed from individual jamo elements.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CD56 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cwaej |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쵖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쵖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB5 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCD56 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CD56 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucd56 |