U+CB58 "쭘" Hangul Syllable Jjum Unicode Character
U+CB58 "쭘" Hangul Syllable Jjum is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jjum" as pronounced in the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅉ" (a tensed or fortis version of the affricate "j"), the vowel "ㅜ" (a back rounded vowel like "oo" in English), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (the bilabial nasal "m"). This character is one of thousands of syllables encoded in the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was introduced to efficiently represent the systematically combinatorial nature of Hangul, where individual jamo letters are grouped into syllabic blocks. While "쭘" is a valid and correctly formed syllable, it is used infrequently in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing mainly in specialized or less common words, and demonstrates the exhaustive encoding of possible sound combinations in the Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CB58 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjum |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쭘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쭘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAD 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCB58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CB58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucb58 |