U+CE5E "칞" Hangul Syllable Cinh Unicode Character
U+CE5E "칞" Hangul Syllable Cinh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, where it represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㄶ" (nh). This particular syllable, "칞", corresponds to the sound "cinh" and is classified under the Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF) of the Unicode Standard, which was designed to encode all possible combinations of Korean syllables in the alphabetic system invented in the 15th century. While it exists within the standard character set for completeness and digital text processing, "칞" is considered a rare or obsolete syllable in modern Korean, as it does not appear in common vocabulary or standard usage. Its inclusion ensures that legacy texts or specialized linguistic data can be represented accurately in electronic formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE5E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cinh |
| 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 "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE5E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce5e |