U+CB28 "쬨" Hangul Syllable Jjoek Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CB28 "쬨" Hangul Syllable Jjoek is a precomposed Korean Hangul syllable that combines the initial consonantal sound "jj" (from the character ㅉ) with the medial vowel "oe" (ㅚ) and the final consonant "k" (ㅋ). This syllable represents a specific phonetic unit in the Korean writing system, where individual jamo letters are grouped into syllabic blocks to represent the sounds of the Korean language. While it is a valid and encoded character for use in digital text, "쬨" is an extremely rare or obsolete syllable in modern Korean, as its constituent sounds do not naturally occur in common vocabulary or speech. It exists primarily as a theoretical or historical combination within the systematic structure of Hangul, ensuring that all possible phonetic arrangements of the Korean alphabet are available for documentation, linguistic study, or rendering of archaic texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+CB28
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjoek
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쬐" U+CB10 Hangul Syllable Jjoe
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쬨
HTML Hex Encoding 쬨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAC 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCB28
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CB28
C/C++/Java Escape \ucb28

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