U+CB98 "쮘" Hangul Syllable Jjwek Unicode Character
U+CB98 "쮘" Hangul Syllable Jjwek is a character from the Korean Hangul script, specifically a precomposed syllable representing the sound "jjwek." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅉ" (jj), the medial vowel "ㅞ" (we), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (k) through Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible modern Korean syllables. This character is used in the Korean writing system for representing specific phonetic syllables in standard Korean text, primarily in contexts where the precise spelling of words containing this syllable is required, though it is relatively rare in everyday vocabulary. Its inclusion in Unicode supports digital representation and processing of the Korean language across various platforms and systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CB98 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjwek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쮘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쮘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAE 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCB98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CB98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucb98 |