U+CBAE "쮮" Hangul Syllable Jjwibs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CBAE "쮮" Hangul Syllable Jjwibs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "jj" (a tensed affricate), the medial vowel "wi" (a rounded front glide), and the final consonant "bs" (a double final consonant cluster pronounced as a tense bilabial stop). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all possible syllabic combinations of the Korean alphabet. Functionally, "쮮" is an extremely rare syllable in contemporary Korean vocabulary, found primarily in specialized or historical contexts rather than in common everyday speech or writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+CBAE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjwibs
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
"ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쮮
HTML Hex Encoding 쮮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAE 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCBAE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CBAE
C/C++/Java Escape \ucbae

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