U+CD5C "최" Hangul Syllable Coe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
최
U+CD5C "최" Hangul Syllable Coe is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "choe" or "che". It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut) with the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and it is widely used in the Korean language for words and names, most prominently as a common Korean surname. In Unicode, this character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in a standardized, single-codepoint format for efficient text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CD5C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Coe |
| 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 "ᅬ" U+116C Hangul Jungseong Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 최 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 최 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB5 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCD5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CD5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucd5c |