U+CAA8 "쪨" Hangul Syllable Jjyel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쪨
U+CAA8 "쪨" Hangul Syllable Jjyel is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "Jjyel" as a combination of the initial consonant "jj" (a tense, doubled version of the "j" sound), the vowel "yeo" (similar to "yuh" as in "young"), and the final consonant "l" (an "l" sound). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet, and it is used in written Korean to express words or morphemes that contain this specific phonetic sequence, though it is relatively rare in modern Korean vocabulary compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CAA8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjyel |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쪠" U+CAA0 Hangul Syllable Jjye "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쪨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쪨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCAA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CAA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucaa8 |