U+CA42 "쩂" Hangul Syllable Jjyaebs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CA42 "쩂" Hangul Syllable Jjyaebs is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "jj" (쩌), the medial vowel "yae" (ㅒ), and the final consonant "bs" (ㅄ). This character is part of the Unicode Standard's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes 11,172 precomposed syllables systematically arranged according to the Korean alphabet's consonant and vowel order. While "쩂" is a valid syllable in the Unicode repertoire, it is considered rare in actual Korean text and is typically encountered only in specialized linguistic contexts or as a theoretical construct within the exhaustive Hangul syllable set.

General Properties

Code Point U+CA42
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjyaebs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쩂
HTML Hex Encoding 쩂
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA9 0x82
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCA42
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CA42
C/C++/Java Escape \uca42

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