U+CE58 "치" Hangul Syllable Ci Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
치
U+CE58 "치" Hangul Syllable Ci is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "chi," formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) with the vowel ㅣ (i). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is used in the modern Korean alphabet to write words such as 치즈 (cheese) or 치다 (to hit or strike). Unlike the archaic or compound syllables also found in the Unicode Hangul Syllables range, "치" is a core, frequently used syllable in everyday Korean text, contributing to the efficient digital representation of the language's phonetic syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ci |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄎ" U+110E Hangul Choseong Chieuch "ᅵ" U+1175 Hangul Jungseong I |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 치 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 치 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce58 |