U+CE54 "칔" Hangul Syllable Cyik Unicode Character
U+CE54 "칔" Hangul Syllable Cyik is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "cyik," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (giyeok). As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it was encoded to support digital text processing for Korean, allowing for efficient representation of complex syllable blocks without requiring separate composition of individual jamo characters. This specific syllable is extremely rare and does not occur in standard modern Korean vocabulary, but it exists in the Unicode standard to ensure complete coverage of all possible Hangul consonant vowel consonant combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE54 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cyik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce54 |