U+CB88 "쮈" Hangul Syllable Jjwel Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter