U+C941 "쥁" Hangul Syllable Jwelt Unicode Character
U+C941 "쥁" Hangul Syllable Jwelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, specifically representing the sound "jwelt" as a combination of the initial consonant "j" (ㅈ), the medial vowel "we" (ㅞ), and the final consonant "lt" (ㄼ). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet using a systematic mapping of initial, medial, and final jamo characters. While it is a valid and formally defined syllable in the Unicode standard, the sound "jwelt" is extremely rare or nonexistent in actual Korean vocabulary, so the character is seldom used in practice. Its inclusion primarily ensures complete coverage of the theoretical phonetic inventory of the Hangul writing system, allowing for unambiguous representation of any possible syllable in digital text even if it never occurs in natural language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C941 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쥁 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쥁 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA5 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC941 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C941 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc941 |