U+CB8A "쮊" Hangul Syllable Jjwelm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CB8A "쮊" Hangul Syllable Jjwelm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing a distinct phonetic unit. It is formed by combining the initial consonant "jj" ( doubled jieut), the medial vowel "we" (a combination of u and eo), and the final consonant "lm" (a combination of rieul and mieum), though it is important to note that this particular final cluster, "lm" (리을미음), is generally not used in standard modern Korean orthography, making the syllable largely obsolete or purely theoretical. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains 11,172 precomposed syllables, U+CB8A exists primarily for comprehensive encoding completeness rather than practical linguistic use.

General Properties

Code Point U+CB8A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjwelm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쮊
HTML Hex Encoding 쮊
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAE 0x8A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCB8A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CB8A
C/C++/Java Escape \ucb8a

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