U+CA71 "쩱" Hangul Syllable Jjelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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