U+CBA5 "쮥" Hangul Syllable Jjwilg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CBA5 "쮥" Hangul Syllable Jjwilg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing a specific phonological unit formed from the initial consonant 'jj', the medial vowel 'wi', and the final consonant 'lg'. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters as distinct code points for efficient text processing. While it corresponds to a valid phonetic sequence in Korean, it is considered a rare or unused syllable in practical language use, primarily serving to complete the systematic coverage of the Hangul syllabary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that any theoretically possible Korean syllable can be represented digitally.

General Properties

Code Point U+CBA5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjwilg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쮜" U+CB9C Hangul Syllable Jjwi
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쮥
HTML Hex Encoding 쮥
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAE 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCBA5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CBA5
C/C++/Java Escape \ucba5

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