U+CA39 "쨹" Hangul Syllable Jjyaelg Unicode Character
U+CA39 "쨹" Hangul Syllable Jjyaelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "jjyaelg" which combines the initial consonant "jj" (a tense, doubled form of the Korean j sound), the medial vowel "yae" (a combination of the y sound and the vowel ae), and the final consonant "lg" (the consonant cluster representing an L and G sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which includes all possible combinations of Korean initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants that are valid in Korean orthography. While the syllable "쨹" is not common in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, it exists as a theoretical and encoded syllable to ensure complete coverage of the Korean writing system, allowing for its potential use in specialized contexts such as linguistic transcription, historical texts, or poetic license.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CA39 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjyaelg |
| 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 "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쨹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쨹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA8 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCA39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CA39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uca39 |