U+CE70 "칰" Hangul Syllable Cik Unicode Character
U+CE70 "칰" Hangul Syllable Cik is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "cik," which in modern Standard Korean corresponds to the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut) as a tense or aspirated sound in certain contexts, combined with the vowel "ㅣ" (i) and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet, and it was introduced to support digital text processing for the Korean language. While not commonly used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it exists as a valid orthographic form that can appear in specialized terms, transliterations, or historical texts, ensuring comprehensive coverage for accurate representation of written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE70 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cik |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce70 |