U+CB48 "쭈" Hangul Syllable Jju Unicode Character
U+CB48 "쭈" Hangul Syllable Jju is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, specifically representing the sound "jju" as a combination of the initial consonant ㅉ (ssangjieut) and the vowel ㅜ (u). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block within Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible syllabic combinations of Korean letters for efficient text processing and display. In everyday Korean usage, the syllable 쭈 appears in words and expressions such as 쭈쭈 (jjujju, a colloquial or childish term for "breast") and 쭈그리다 (jjugurida, meaning "to crouch" or "to squat"), highlighting its role in conveying both lexical meaning and phonetic subtlety through the tensed initial consonant sound that distinguishes it from its aspirated and plain counterparts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CB48 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jju |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄍ" U+110D Hangul Choseong Ssangcieuc "ᅮ" U+116E Hangul Jungseong U |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쭈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쭈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAD 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCB48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CB48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucb48 |