U+CAFC "쫼" Hangul Syllable Jjwael Unicode Character
U+CAFC "쫼" Hangul Syllable Jjwael is a composed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jjwael" which combines the initial consonant "jj" (ㅉ), the vowel "wae" (ㅙ, itself a compound of ㅗ and ㅐ), and the final consonant "l" (ㄹ). This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes precomposed syllabic forms based on the Korean standard ordering known as "Gangbyeon" or the modern collation sequence. The syllable "쫼" is not common in everyday contemporary Korean vocabulary but follows the regular phonetic and orthographic rules of Hangul, where characters are formed by stacking initial, medial, and final jamo in a single square block. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all valid Hangul syllable combinations, even rare ones, are representable in digital text for linguistic accuracy and historical documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CAFC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjwael |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쫼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쫼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAB 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCAFC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CAFC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucafc |