U+C958 "쥘" Hangul Syllable Jwil Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C958 "쥘" Hangul Syllable Jwil is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jwil" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅟ (wi), and the final consonant ㄹ (l). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains all possible 11,172 precomposed syllables formed from Korean jamo characters, and it is encoded for use in digital text to represent the Korean language accurately. This syllable appears in practical Korean vocabulary, such as in the word "쥘다" meaning to pinch or squeeze, and is included in standard Korean character sets for compatibility with legacy and modern text processing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+C958
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jwil
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쥐" U+C950 Hangul Syllable Jwi
"ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쥘
HTML Hex Encoding 쥘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA5 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC958
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C958
C/C++/Java Escape \uc958

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter