U+CE43 "칃" Hangul Syllable Cyid Unicode Character
U+CE43 "칃" Hangul Syllable Cyid is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “ㅊ” (chieut), the medial vowel “ㅣ” (i), and the final consonant “ㄷ” (digeut) to produce the sound “chid.” This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible syllabic combinations of Hangul jamo, and it is used in written Korean to form words or grammatical elements. Its composition follows the standard morphological structure of Korean syllables, where an initial consonant, a vowel, and an optional final consonant are stacked into a single square character for efficient text rendering and readability. As a syllable with a final consonant, it is less common in everyday vocabulary but demonstrates the systematic nature of the Hangul writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE43 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyid |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칃 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칃 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce43 |