U+CAEC "쫬" Hangul Syllable Jjwass Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CAEC "쫬" Hangul Syllable Jjwass is a precomposed syllable that forms part of the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, and represents the sound "jjwass." It is constructed from the initial consonant jj (ㅉ), the medial vowel wa (ㅘ), and the final consonant ss (ㅆ), combining to create a single block character. Although this specific syllable may be extremely rare or even unused in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it exists in the Unicode Standard to ensure complete coverage of all possible phonetically valid Hangul syllables, following the systematic encoding principles established for the Korean script.

General Properties

Code Point U+CAEC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjwass
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
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쫬
HTML Hex Encoding 쫬
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAB 0xAC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCAEC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CAEC
C/C++/Java Escape \ucaec

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