U+CA0C "쨌" Hangul Syllable Jjaess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CA0C "쨌" Hangul Syllable Jjaess is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jjaess" and formed from the initial consonant "jj" (ㅉ), the medial vowel "ae" (ㅐ), and the final consonant "ss" (ㅆ). This character is used in the Korean language as a single block, following the standard syllabic structure of Hangul, where letters are grouped into squares to represent distinct syllables. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode (AC00-D7AF), which was designed to encode all 11,172 possible syllables that can be formed from the Korean alphabet, allowing for efficient digital text processing and display.

General Properties

Code Point U+CA0C
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjaess
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쨌
HTML Hex Encoding 쨌
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA8 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCA0C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CA0C
C/C++/Java Escape \uca0c

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