U+CB8F "쮏" Hangul Syllable Jjwelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CB8F "쮏" Hangul Syllable Jjwelh is a specific precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant “jj” (similar to a tense “j” sound), the medial vowel “we” (a diphthong starting with a “w” glide), and the final consonant “lh” (a lateral and aspirated or tensed sound not typically found in standard Korean). This syllable is part of the larger Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible phonetically valid combinations of Korean letters for digital text processing. While 쮏 is a valid orthographic form in the Unicode standard, it is extremely rare or nonexistent in actual Korean vocabulary, as the “jjwelh” cluster does not occur naturally in standard or dialectal Korean speech.

General Properties

Code Point U+CB8F
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjwelh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쮏
HTML Hex Encoding 쮏
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAE 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCB8F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CB8F
C/C++/Java Escape \ucb8f

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