U+CA38 "쨸" Hangul Syllable Jjyael Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쨸
U+CA38 "쨸" Hangul Syllable Jjyael is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system Hangul, representing the sound "jjyael" as a combination of the initial consonant jj (a tense or fortis sound similar to a double j) and the vowel yae, followed by the final consonant l. In Unicode, it is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants as single characters for ease of text processing. This syllable is rarely used in modern standard Korean and appears primarily in historical or specialized linguistic contexts, where it may be encountered in certain romanization schemes or transcriptions of dialectal sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CA38 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjyael |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쨰" U+CA30 Hangul Syllable Jjyae "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쨸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쨸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA8 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCA38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CA38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uca38 |