U+CDC8 "췈" Hangul Syllable Cweok Unicode Character
U+CDC8 "췈" Hangul Syllable Cweok is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "cweok" as a combination of the initial consonant 'ㅊ' (chieut), the medial vowel 'ㅞ' (we), and the final consonant 'ㄱ' (giyeok). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) and follows the standard Unicode encoding for Korean, where all possible syllable combinations are precomposed for ease of use and compatibility. As an existing syllable in the Korean lexicon, it does not correspond to a particularly common word in modern Korean, but it functions as part of the systematic inventory of sounds that the script can represent, reflecting the algorithmic nature of Hangul's syllable formation according to the rules of Korean phonology.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CDC8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cweok |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "춰" U+CDB0 Hangul Syllable Cweo "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 췈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 췈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB7 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCDC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CDC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucdc8 |