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hangul syllable cilm

Hangul syllable cilm

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칢 is a Hangul syllable block made from ㅊ ㅣ ㄻ. By itself it shows one Korean syllable; the surrounding word gives its meaning.

Text symbol

What 칢 means

It is one Korean syllable written in Hangul.

The 칢 decomposition is ㅊ ㅣ ㄻ: an initial consonant, a vowel, and a final consonant cluster. “Cilm” in the Unicode name labels these parts; it is not a Korean word or a pronunciation guide.

A first recorded reference to Hangul dates to 1443, and an explanatory book appeared in 1446. Hangul gave Korean speech a writing system of its own while formal writing relied on Classical Chinese. Fonts can fit the jamo differently within the block without changing its spelling.

Read it as Korean spelling; the surrounding text supplies the word-level meaning.

Who writes 칢

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Don't confuse it with

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Questions people ask

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Why does 칢 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 칢

Search it as
Hangul cilm · cilm · 칢 jamo · 칢 syllable · Hangul IME
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType CE62, then AltX to get 칢.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “hangul syllable cilm”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType ce62, then Enter or Space.
HTML
칢
CSS
\CE62
How to type 칢
In a Korean input method, enter ㅊ, ㅣ, ㄹ, then ㅁ; it combines the final consonants as ㄻ.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
칢
HTML hex
칢
CSS content
content: "\CE62";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%B9%A2
1
On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

2

Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

Korean syllables11,623 symbols