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췠

hangul syllable cwess

Hangul syllable cwess

췠 is a Hangul syllable block: it contributes one syllable to Korean writing, and the word around it supplies the meaning. A Korean input method normally joins its three jamo, or letter components, into one block; decomposed text can show them separately.

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췠 meaning · cwess · Hangul syllable · Korean character · jamo · NFC Hangul · NFD Hangul · Korean keyboard
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What 췠 means

It spells one Korean syllable; the surrounding word gives it meaning.

Hangul, the writing system for Korean, was designed to represent Korean speech. A record announcing it dates to 1443, and an explanatory book appeared in 1446.

Hangul arranges jamo—letter components—into syllable blocks: an initial consonant, a vowel, and sometimes a final consonant. 췠 combines ᄎ, ᅰ, and ᆻ in those positions.

Why can 췠 appear as separate jamo?

It is one syllable stored as a sequence of components.

Digital text can store a syllable as one precomposed block or as its component jamo. NFC is the Unicode form that recomposes the block; NFD keeps the components separate. If an app shows 췠, it has decomposed the same syllable, not changed it.

Neutral in Korean text; its tone comes from the words and sentence around it.

Alone, it can read as a stray syllable rather than a complete message.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings
Inside a Korean word
A syllable contributing its sound to the word.
Sent alone as a text sample
A syllable without a surrounding word to make its meaning clear.
Shown as 췠
The same syllable displayed as separate jamo.

Don't confuse it with

3

Questions people ask

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Can 췠 appear as multiple characters?

Yes. Decomposed text stores it as 췠; NFC combines those components into the single block 췠.

How to type 췠

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType CDE0, then Alt+X to get 췠.
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 cwess”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType cde0, then Enter or Space.
HTML
췠
CSS
\CDE0
How to type 췠
Switch to a Korean input method and type the initial consonant, vowel, and final consonant in order; it normally combines them into 췠.
When the jamo stay separate
Use NFC, the Unicode form that recomposes Hangul, to make one block. NFD keeps the components separate.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
췠
HTML hex
췠
CSS content
content: "\CDE0";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%B7%A0
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

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Korean syllables11,623 symbols