U+CDE8 "취" Hangul Syllable Cwi Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
취
U+CDE8 "취" Hangul Syllable Cwi is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "cwi" formed from the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) and the vowel ㅟ (wi). It is commonly used in the Korean language, appearing in words such as 취하다 (chwihada) meaning "to get drunk" or "to adopt," and 취소 (chwiso) meaning "cancellation." As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character enables digital text processing and display for Korean, supporting the efficient representation of the syllabic writing system where each syllable block corresponds to a single codepoint.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CDE8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cwi |
| 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 "ᅱ" U+1171 Hangul Jungseong Wi |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 취 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 취 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB7 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCDE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CDE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucde8 |