U+CE72 "칲" Hangul Syllable Cip Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
칲
U+CE72 "칲" Hangul Syllable Cip is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "cip" in the Korean writing system. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅊ (chieut), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅍ (pieup), and it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. This particular syllable is not among the most common in modern Korean vocabulary but is valid for phonetic transcription, particularly in transliterating foreign words or sounds where a "cip" syllable is needed. As a single code point, it allows for efficient text processing without the need to combine individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CE72 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Cip |
| 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 "ᇁ" U+11C1 Hangul Jongseong Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 칲 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 칲 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xB9 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCE72 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CE72 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uce72 |