U+CA3A "쨺" Hangul Syllable Jjyaelm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CA3A "쨺" Hangul Syllable Jjyaelm is a specific precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “jj” (a tense, aspirated sound similar to the English “ch” but with a harder articulation), the medial vowel “yae” (a glide vowel starting with a “y” sound and moving to “ae”), and the final consonant “lm” (a double consonant ending with an “l” and “m” sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed by Korean jamo characters, allowing for efficient text processing and rendering in digital environments. Its inclusion ensures that this relatively rare syllable can be accurately represented and processed in computerized Korean language systems, supporting everything from typing and editing to display in documents and on the web.

General Properties

Code Point U+CA3A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjyaelm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쨺
HTML Hex Encoding 쨺
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA8 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCA3A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CA3A
C/C++/Java Escape \uca3a

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