U+CE5B "칛" Hangul Syllable Cigs Unicode Character
U+CE5B "칛" Hangul Syllable Cigs is a precomposed syllable representing the sound "cigs" in the Korean Hangul writing system. It is composed of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄳ" (giyeok and siot together), following the standard structure of a Hangul syllable block. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes modern Korean syllables by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in a systematic arrangement. Its primary use is in digital text representation for the Korean language, where it would appear in words or proper terms requiring that specific phonetic combination. The character is considered rare in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, as the final consonant cluster "ㄳ" is not common in typical speech, but it remains a valid and codified part of the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive coverage of all possible Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE5B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cigs |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "치" U+CE58 Hangul Syllable Ci "ᆪ" U+11AA Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칛 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칛 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE5B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE5B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce5b |