U+CAEB "쫫" Hangul Syllable Jjwas Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CAEB "쫫" Hangul Syllable Jjwas is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the sound "jjwas." It is formed from the initial consonant 지어쌍 (쌍지읒, a doubled "j" sound), the vowel ㅘ (wa), and the final consonant ㅅ (s), combining to create a single, closed syllable block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean writing system, and while it is a valid and defined character, it is considered rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, appearing mostly in specialized or historical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+CAEB
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjwas
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
"ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쫫
HTML Hex Encoding 쫫
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAB 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCAEB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CAEB
C/C++/Java Escape \ucaeb

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter