U+CE40 "칀" Hangul Syllable Cyin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
칀
U+CE40 "칀" Hangul Syllable Cyin is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "cyin" formed by the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the medial vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 syllable blocks in a systematic order based on the Korean phonetic alphabet. While not among the most frequently used syllables in contemporary Korean, "칀" facilitates accurate digital representation of the language's syllabic structure, enabling proper text display, input, and processing in computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE40 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyin |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "츼" U+CE3C Hangul Syllable Cyi "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce40 |