U+CABC "쪼" Hangul Syllable Jjo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쪼
U+CABC "쪼" Hangul Syllable Jjo is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jjo" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅉ (the tense form of ㅈ, "j") and the vowel ㅗ ("o"). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables that were encoded to simplify text processing for the Korean language. In Korean orthography, 쪼 appears in words such as 쪼개다 (to split) or 쪼이다 (to be squeezed), where the tense initial consonant gives the syllable a sharper, more emphatic pronunciation compared to its plain counterpart 조.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CABC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄍ" U+110D Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쪼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쪼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAA 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCABC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CABC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucabc |