U+CDA9 "충" Hangul Syllable Cung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
충
U+CDA9 "충" Hangul Syllable Cung is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "chung" with a tense initial consonant. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) and the medial vowel ㅜ (u), combined with the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), and this specific codepoint was introduced as part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode version 2.0 to support efficient digital text processing. The syllable appears frequently in Korean vocabulary, such as in words meaning loyalty or faithfulness, reflecting its integral role in the language's phonetic and semantic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CDA9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cung |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "추" U+CD94 Hangul Syllable Cu "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 충 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 충 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB6 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCDA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CDA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucda9 |