U+CE48 "칈" Hangul Syllable Cyils Unicode Character
U+CE48 "칈" Hangul Syllable Cyils is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the sound /tɕʰil/ as it combines the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul) to form a single glyph. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet according to the modern standard syllabary, enabling efficient text representation without requiring dynamic composition. As a specific linguistic unit, "칈" may appear in native Korean words or loanword transcriptions, though it is relatively uncommon compared to more frequent syllables, serving as an example of the systematic and exhaustive encoding of Korean phonology in digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE48 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyils |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce48 |