U+CE6C "칬" Hangul Syllable Ciss Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
칬
U+CE6C "칬" Hangul Syllable Ciss is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "ciss" or more accurately "jjit" in the Revised Romanization of Korean, where it combines a leading phoneme with the vowel and a trailing consonant. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet, with U+CE6C being one of the less common syllables used in the Korean language. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can properly represent this precise phonetic unit, preserving the orthographic and linguistic structure of Korean for use in electronic communication and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE6C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ciss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칬 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칬 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE6C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE6C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce6c |