U+CB88 "쮈" Hangul Syllable Jjwel Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쮈
U+CB88 "쮈" Hangul Syllable Jjwel is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "jjwel." It is formed from the initial consonant "ㅉ" (a tense, double j sound) and the medial vowel "ㅞ" (a diphthong pronounced like "weh"), with the final consonant "ㄹ" (an "l" sound) completing the syllable block. This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Korean syllable combinations, and is used in written Korean for words or contexts where that precise sound occurs, though it appears relatively infrequently in everyday text compared to more common syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CB88 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjwel |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쮀" U+CB80 Hangul Syllable Jjwe "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쮈 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쮈 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCB88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CB88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucb88 |