U+CE4C "칌" Hangul Syllable Cyim Unicode Character
U+CE4C "칌" Hangul Syllable Cyim is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅁ (mieum). This specific syllabic block represents the sound "cyim," which is a valid but uncommon syllable in Korean, as the initial "cy" sound (ㅊ with a palatalized glide) is rare in native or Sino-Korean vocabulary. It is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean lead, vowel, and tail letters in a single range for efficient text processing. As such, "칌" exists primarily as a typographic entity, allowing for the correct representation of theoretical Korean phonetic sequences in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE4C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyim |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce4c |