U+CA44 "쩄" Hangul Syllable Jjyaess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CA44 "쩄" Hangul Syllable Jjyaess is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "jjyaess" through a combination of the initial consonant 쌍지읒 (jj, a tensed version of the "j" sound), the vowel ㅑ (ya), and the final consonant cluster ㅆ (ss, a tense double "s"). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard and is used in written Korean to form specific lexical items or grammatical forms, though it is relatively uncommon in everyday modern vocabulary. This character is encoded as a single code point to support efficient text processing and rendering for the Korean language, where such syllabic blocks are fundamental to written communication.

General Properties

Code Point U+CA44
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjyaess
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쩄
HTML Hex Encoding 쩄
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA9 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCA44
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CA44
C/C++/Java Escape \uca44

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