U+CAD8 "쫘" Hangul Syllable Jjwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쫘
U+CAD8 "쫘" Hangul Syllable Jjwa is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "jjwa." It consists of the initial consonant 쫘 (a double consonant derived from ㅈ), the vowel ㅘ (wa), and no final consonant, forming a single block that functions as a phonetic unit in the Korean alphabet. This character falls within the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo in a single code point for efficient text processing. Its usage is primarily in written Korean, where it appears in words as part of the language's expressive phonetic repertoire, though it is less common than basic syllables without tense consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CAD8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjwa |
| 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 "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쫘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쫘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAB 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCAD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CAD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucad8 |