U+CB55 "쭕" Hangul Syllable Jjult Unicode Character
U+CB55 "쭕" Hangul Syllable Jjult is a specific precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jjult." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅉ (jj) and the vowel ㅜ (u), combined with the final consonant letter that corresponds to a "t" sound at the syllable's end. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which was designed to encode all possible modern and ancient Korean syllable combinations by precomposing them into single code points for efficient digital text representation. While it is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is not commonly used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, and its presence in the standard reflects Unicode's comprehensive approach to covering the full theoretical set of Hangul syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CB55 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjult |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쭈" U+CB48 Hangul Syllable Jju "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쭕 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쭕 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAD 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCB55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CB55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucb55 |