U+CDD8 "췘" Hangul Syllable Cwels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
췘
U+CDD8 "췘" Hangul Syllable Cwels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic sound "cwels" formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the medial vowel ㅞ (we), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient text processing and display. As a typographical unit, 췘 is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary but remains a valid orthographic form used for phonetic transcription or in specialized linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CDD8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cwels |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "췌" U+CDCC Hangul Syllable Cwe "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 췘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 췘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB7 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCDD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CDD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucdd8 |