U+CA8E "쪎" Hangul Syllable Jjyeolm Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쪎
U+CA8E "쪎" Hangul Syllable Jjyeolm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed from the initial consonant 'jj' (a tense, aspirated sound represented by the Hangul letter 쪄), the medial vowel 'yeo' (ㅕ), and the final consonant 'lm' (ㄻ), which together produce the phonetic value /t͡ɕ͈jʌlm/. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean alphabet letters in a systematic order for efficient digital representation. The character is used in Korean text to denote a specific syllable for words or morphemes, though it is not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CA8E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjyeolm |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쪄" U+CA84 Hangul Syllable Jjyeo "ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쪎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쪎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAA 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCA8E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CA8E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uca8e |