U+CE60 "칠" Hangul Syllable Cil Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
칠
U+CE60 "칠" Hangul Syllable Cil is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "chil" as pronounced in the Korean language. This character is formed from the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) and the final consonant ㄹ (rieul), with the vowel ㅣ (i) placed horizontally to complete the syllable block. It is frequently used in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing in words such as "칠판" (chilpan, meaning chalkboard) and "칠십" (chilship, meaning seventy). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded for use in digital text, enabling proper representation and rendering of Korean script across computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE60 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cil |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce60 |