U+CAF6 "쫶" Hangul Syllable Jjwaegg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CAF6 "쫶" Hangul Syllable Jjwaegg is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "jjwaegg" formed from the initial consonant 쪽 (jjw), the vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㄲ (kk). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, a standard collection of 11,172 precomposed syllables introduced in Unicode 2.0, and is used in written Korean to represent a specific phonological combination. While not among the most common syllables in modern Korean usage, it illustrates the systematic way Hangul, the Korean alphabet, combines consonants and vowels into syllabic blocks that fit neatly into Unicode's encoding framework for efficient text representation.

General Properties

Code Point U+CAF6
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjwaegg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쫴" U+CAF4 Hangul Syllable Jjwae
"ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쫶
HTML Hex Encoding 쫶
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAB 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCAF6
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CAF6
C/C++/Java Escape \ucaf6

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