U+CAB1 "쪱" Hangul Syllable Jjyeb Unicode Character
U+CAB1 "쪱" Hangul Syllable Jjyeb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant ‘jj’ (a tense, doubled version of the ‘j’ sound), the medial vowel ‘ye’ (a diphthong beginning with a ‘y’ glide), and the final consonant ‘b’. This syllable is part of the extensive Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible valid combinations of Korean letters in a single precomposed form for efficient text processing. In actual Korean language usage, "쪱" is an extremely rare character, as it does not correspond to a commonly used word in modern Korean vocabulary; its primary existence is to fulfill the systematic completeness of the Hangul syllabary encoding rather than for frequent practical application.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CAB1 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjyeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쪱 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쪱 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAA 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCAB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CAB1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucab1 |