U+CE68 "침" Hangul Syllable Cim Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
침
U+CE68 "침" Hangul Syllable Cim is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "chim" as in the word for "spit" or "needle" depending on context. This character is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅣ" (i), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (mieum), encoded as a single unified code point rather than a sequence of individual jamo letters. Part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is widely used in Korean texts and digital communications, allowing for efficient representation of this common syllable in languages such as Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE68 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cim |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 침 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 침 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE68 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE68 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce68 |