U+CB80 "쮀" Hangul Syllable Jjwe Unicode Character
U+CB80 "쮀" Hangul Syllable Jjwe is a single syllable block in the Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant jj (쨔), the medial vowel we (ㅞ), and the final consonant (ㄹ), which are represented as a single, precomposed character in the Unicode standard rather than as separate jamo components. Its pronunciation approximates the English "jjweh" sound, with a tense or fortis initial consonant, and it is used in modern Korean vocabulary, albeit relatively infrequently due to the rarity of the "jjwe" syllable in everyday speech. This character is part of the larger Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF), which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations in numeric order, allowing for efficient text processing and display in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CB80 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjwe |
| 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 "ᅰ" U+1170 Hangul Jungseong We |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쮀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쮀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAE 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCB80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CB80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucb80 |