U+CE35 "층" Hangul Syllable Ceung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
층
U+CE35 "층" Hangul Syllable Ceung is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ceung" as it appears in modern Korean phonology. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the medial vowel ㅡ (eu), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung), which together create a syllable commonly found in words such as "계층" (gyecheung, meaning "class" or "layer") and "층계" (cheunggye, meaning "stairs"). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in digital text to accurately represent the Korean language, supporting its alphabetic and syllabic structure for readability and proper typographic rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE35 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ceung |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "츠" U+CE20 Hangul Syllable Ceu "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 층 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 층 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB8 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE35 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE35 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce35 |