U+CE4E "칎" Hangul Syllable Cyibs Unicode Character
U+CE4E "칎" Hangul Syllable Cyibs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅟ" (wi), and the final consonant "ㅂ" (bieup), forming the sound "chwip." This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which organizes the 11,172 possible syllable combinations in Korean writing as single code points for efficient text processing and display. Used primarily in the Korean language, "칎" is a rare or specialized syllable that appears in specific vocabulary, such as in the word "칎다" which describes a weaving or interlacing action, though it is less common in everyday speech and more likely found in technical or literary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE4E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyibs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce4e |