U+CA3E "쨾" Hangul Syllable Jjyaelp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CA3E "쨾" Hangul Syllable Jjyaelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system. It represents the sound "jjyaelp" and is formed from the initial consonant ㅉ (a tensed or fortis "jj") and the medial vowel ㅒ (a diphthong "yae") combined with the final consonant cluster ㄼ ("lb"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllables of the Korean alphabet as individual codepoints for efficient digital representation. As a relatively rare syllable, "쨾" is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary but demonstrates the systematic and phonetic nature of the Hangul script.

General Properties

Code Point U+CA3E
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjyaelp
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
"ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쨾
HTML Hex Encoding 쨾
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA8 0xBE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCA3E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CA3E
C/C++/Java Escape \uca3e

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