U+CA71 "쩱" Hangul Syllable Jjelg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쩱
U+CA71 "쩱" Hangul Syllable Jjelg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jjelg" which combines the initial consonant 쩍 (a tense version of j), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ᆰ (a double final pronounced as lg or a similar cluster). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters in a standardized order according to the principles of the Korean alphabet. In practical use, 쩱 appears in various Korean words, often conveying meanings related to sticky or squishy textures, such as in the adjective 쩍쩍하다 describing a messy, sticky surface.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CA71 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjelg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쩨" U+CA68 Hangul Syllable Jje "ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쩱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쩱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA9 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCA71 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CA71 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uca71 |