U+CBE4 "쯤" Hangul Syllable Jjeum Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
쯤
U+CBE4 "쯤" Hangul Syllable Jjeum is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "jjeum" as a combination of the initial consonant ‘ㅉ’ (jj), the medial vowel ‘ㅡ’ (eu), and the final consonant ‘ㅁ’ (m). In Korean language usage, this syllable appears in everyday vocabulary, notably as part of the adverbial or bound noun ‘쯤’ meaning "about" or "approximately," as in phrases like ‘한 시간쯤’ (about an hour). The character belongs to the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible modern Hangul syllables in a systematic, precomposed form based on the Korean standard KS X 1001 and the Jamo ordering of initial, medial, and final consonants and vowels.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+CBE4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jjeum |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "쯔" U+CBD4 Hangul Syllable Jjeu "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 쯤 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 쯤 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xAF 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xCBE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000CBE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ucbe4 |