U+C940 "쥀" Hangul Syllable Jwels Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쥀
U+C940 "쥀" Hangul Syllable Jwels is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "jwels." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), which together create a single block character used in the Hangul script. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters in a standardized and compact form for digital text processing. While not as common as simpler syllables, "쥀" appears in specific Korean words and linguistic contexts, demonstrating the systematic nature of Hangul's syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C940 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwels |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "줴" U+C934 Hangul Syllable Jwe "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쥀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쥀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA5 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC940 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C940 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc940 |