U+CAE8 "쫨" Hangul Syllable Jjwam Unicode Character
U+CAE8 "쫨" Hangul Syllable Jjwam is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "jjwam" as a single typographic unit. This character is formed from the initial consonant 쫃 (jj), the vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅁ (m), though it is encoded as a complete syllable block rather than a sequence of individual jamo components. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, U+CAE8 is used primarily in the Korean language to accurately represent specific lexical items or morphological forms where this sound occurs. Its existence demonstrates Unicode's comprehensive support for the 11,172 possible syllabic blocks in modern Hangul, ensuring that even less common syllables like "jjwam" are available for digital text processing and display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CAE8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjwam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쫨 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쫨 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAB 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCAE8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CAE8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucae8 |