U+CA08 "쨈" Hangul Syllable Jjaem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쨈
U+CA08 "쨈" Hangul Syllable Jjaem is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "jjaem" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅉ (jj) and the vowel ㅐ (ae) with the final consonant ㅁ (m). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet to facilitate digital text processing. This character is used in Korean language contexts, though it is relatively rare compared to more common syllables, and it may appear in compound words or loanword transcriptions where the sound "jjaem" is needed, such as the slang term "쨈" for "jam" in the sense of a musical jam session or a crowded situation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CA08 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjaem |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "째" U+C9F8 Hangul Syllable Jjae "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쨈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쨈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA8 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCA08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CA08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uca08 |