U+CB8C "쮌" Hangul Syllable Jjwels Unicode Character
U+CB8C "쮌" Hangul Syllable Jjwels is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "jjwel" in the Korean writing system, formed from the initial consonant "jj" (a tense double consonant), the medial vowel "we" (a combination of "o" and "e" diphthong), and the final consonant "l" (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean jamo letters into single code points for efficient text processing. While this specific syllable is uncommon in modern Korean vocabulary and may not appear in frequent usage, it demonstrates the systematic nature of Hangul's morpho-syllabic block construction, allowing for the representation of any phonologically valid syllable in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CB8C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjwels |
| 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 "ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쮌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쮌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAE 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCB8C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CB8C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucb8c |