U+CE6A "칪" Hangul Syllable Cibs Unicode Character
U+CE6A "칪" Hangul Syllable Cibs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "cibs" which is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut) with the vowel ㅣ (i) and the final consonant ㅄ (bieup-siot cluster). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables that are used for efficient text encoding in digital environments. As part of this extensive block, U+CE6A allows Korean text to be represented as single code points, simplifying processing and display compared to using individual jamo components. While "칪" is a valid syllable according to Hangul orthography, it is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, appearing mainly in specialized linguistic contexts or as a theoretical construct within the syllable inventory of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE6A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cibs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE6A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE6A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce6a |