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챠

hangul syllable cya

Hangul syllable Cya

챠 is a Korean Hangul syllable, pronounced roughly “chya” (“ch” in “church,” followed by “ya”); alone, it has no fixed meaning. It appears inside Korean words, where surrounding syllables supply the message. On a standard two-set Korean keyboard, C and I build it from its two parts.

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챠 · cya · chya · Korean syllable · Hangul input · 챠 typing · 챠
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Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws

What 챠 means

It supplies a Korean syllable, not a standalone word. The spelling joins ㅊ, the opening consonant, with ㅑ, the “ya” vowel; it has no final consonant. A surrounding Korean word supplies its full meaning, so a lone 챠 is a syllable fragment or spelling example.

Hangul was created under King Sejong in 1443; the 1446 guide Hunminjeongeum explained the script’s purpose and how letters combine. It was designed to represent Korean more directly than the Chinese-character writing system then used for Korean. 챠 is one syllable in that script, not a separate invention.

Neutral written syllable; any emotional tone comes from the surrounding sentence.

Don't confuse it with

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챠
챠 and 챠 represent the same syllable: Unicode treats them as equivalent, though one is a precomposed character and the other is a two-jamo sequence.
차
Hangul Syllable Ca
차 uses the vowel ㅏ; 챠 uses ㅑ, which adds a brief y-glide before a. That changes the syllable, not just its font style.

Questions people ask

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Is 챠 an emoji?

No. 챠 is a Hangul syllable used in Korean spelling, rendered as a text character.

How to type 챠

Windows (Word)
Alt+XType CC60, then Alt+X to get 챠.
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 cya”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType cc60, then Enter or Space.
HTML
챠
CSS
\CC60
How do I type 챠?
Switch to Korean input. On the standard two-set layout, C enters ㅊ and I enters ㅑ; the input method combines them as you type.
Unicode jamo sequence
Unicode also represents 챠 as ᄎ followed by ᅣ; normalization can combine the sequence into the precomposed syllable.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
챠
HTML hex
챠
CSS content
content: "\CC60";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EC%B1%A0
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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

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Chinese, Japanese & Korean121,370 symbols

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Korean syllables11,623 symbols

ᄀᄁᄂᄃᄄᄅᄆᄇᄈᄉᄊᄋ