U+CA5B "쩛" Hangul Syllable Jjeolh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CA5B "쩛" Hangul Syllable Jjeolh is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "jjeolh" through the combination of the initial consonant 쩌 (jjéo) and the final consonant ㅀ (lh). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encompasses all logically possible syllable blocks formed from Korean jamo letters. While the syllable Jjeolh is rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it follows the standard orthographic patterns of the language and serves as an example of how Unicode efficiently encodes the complex syllabic structure of Hangul without requiring individual jamo combinations.

General Properties

Code Point U+CA5B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjeolh
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쩌" U+CA4C Hangul Syllable Jjeo
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쩛
HTML Hex Encoding 쩛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA9 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCA5B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CA5B
C/C++/Java Escape \uca5b

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