U+CE5C "친" Hangul Syllable Cin Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
친
U+CE5C "친" Hangul Syllable Cin is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "chin." It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㄴ (nieun), which together create a single, codified block in the Unicode Hangul Syllables range. This character is used exclusively in written Korean to transcribe words or morphemes containing that specific phonetic composition, such as in the word "친구" (chingu, meaning friend). Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates consistent digital representation and text processing of Korean across global computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE5C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cin |
| 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 "ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 친 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 친 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce5c |