U+CB3F "쬿" Hangul Syllable Jjyos Unicode Character
U+CB3F "쬿" Hangul Syllable Jjyos is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul writing system, representing a phonetic combination of the initial consonant "jj" (a tense, fortis sound akin to a hard "jj" in English), the medial vowel "yo" (similar to the "yo" in "yonder"), and the final consonant "s" (pronounced as a soft "t" in Korean due to syllable-final consonant assimilation). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate digital representation of Korean text. While not commonly used in modern Korean vocabulary, it serves as a valid linguistic component within the systematic phonetic inventory of the language, demonstrating the rich combinatorial structure of Hangul where initial, medial, and final jamo elements are stacked into single code points for efficient processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CB3F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjyos |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쬬" U+CB2C Hangul Syllable Jjyo "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쬿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쬿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAC 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCB3F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CB3F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucb3f |