U+CA60 "쩠" Hangul Syllable Jjeoss Unicode Character
U+CA60 "쩠" Hangul Syllable Jjeoss is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant 쩌 (a tensed version of the consonant ㅈ) and the vowel ㅓ (eo), combined with the final consonant cluster ㅆ (ss). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it represents a distinct phonetic unit specific to Korean, with the double s final consonant indicating a tensed or reinforced pronunciation at the syllable's end. This character is used in modern Korean orthography for various lexical items, including the verb base "쩠다" meaning to have a disliking or surly expression, and it illustrates how Unicode systematically encodes all possible combinations of leading consonants, vowels, and trailing consonants in the Korean script to support accurate text representation and processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CA60 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjeoss |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쩠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쩠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA9 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCA60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CA60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uca60 |