U+CDC9 "췉" Hangul Syllable Cweot Unicode Character
U+CDC9 "췉" Hangul Syllable Cweot is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound value of the initial consonant "ch" (ㅊ) combined with the medial vowel "weo" (ㅝ) and the final consonant "t" (ㅌ). This specific syllable is constructed according to the standard Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed by the combination of initial, medial, and final jamo characters. While "췉" is a valid and linguistically possible syllable in Korean, it is extremely rare or nonexistent in actual vocabulary, as most commonly used syllables follow more frequent phonetic patterns. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that any potential or historical use of the syllable can be correctly represented and processed in digital text, supporting the complete coverage of the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CDC9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cweot |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 췉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 췉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB7 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCDC9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CDC9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucdc9 |