U+CA9C "쪜" Hangul Syllable Jjyeok Unicode Character
U+CA9C "쪜" Hangul Syllable Jjyeok is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul script, representing a single phonetic block that combines the initial consonant "jj" (a tensed "j" sound, written as double ᄍ), the vowel "yeo" (ᅧ), and the final consonant "k" (ክ). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that were created to efficiently encode the entire set of possible Korean syllable combinations. The syllable "쪜" is composed from the Unicode Hangul Jamo characters for its individual components and is used in written Korean to represent the sound jjyeok, though it is not among the most common syllables in everyday Korean text. Its existence in the standard ensures that Korean can be displayed and processed correctly across modern computing systems without relying on dynamic syllable composition in all contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CA9C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjyeok |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쪜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쪜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCA9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CA9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uca9c |