U+CA18 "쨘" Hangul Syllable Jjyan Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CA18 "쨘" Hangul Syllable Jjyan is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jjyan". It is formed from the initial consonant ㅉ (a tense, double "j" sound), the medial vowel ㅑ (the "ya" sound), and the final consonant ㄴ ("n"). While not one of the most common syllables in standard Korean vocabulary, it appears in expressive or onomatopoeic words, such as "쨘" used to mimic a dramatic reveal or fanfare, similar to the English interjection "ta-da!" In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Hangul Syllables block (AC00–D7AF), where thousands of such syllables are encoded algorithmically according to the modern Hangul orthography.

General Properties

Code Point U+CA18
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjyan
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쨔" U+CA14 Hangul Syllable Jjya
"ᆫ" U+11AB Hangul Jongseong Nieun

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쨘
HTML Hex Encoding 쨘
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA8 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCA18
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CA18
C/C++/Java Escape \uca18

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