U+CAE4 "쫤" Hangul Syllable Jjwals Unicode Character
U+CAE4 "쫤" Hangul Syllable Jjwals is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "jj" (a tense, aspirated sound similar to the English "ch" in "cheese" but with more force), the medial vowel "wa" (a diphthong combining "o" and "a"), and the final consonant "ls" (a double consonant ending). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters in a single character for efficient text processing. In practical usage, "쫤" appears in Korean vocabulary to convey specific meanings, such as in the word "쫤쫤하다" which describes a tight or cramped state, and it is commonly used in written Korean across digital and print media.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CAE4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjwals |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쫘" U+CAD8 Hangul Syllable Jjwa "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쫤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쫤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAB 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCAE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CAE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucae4 |