U+CBFC "쯼" Hangul Syllable Jjyils Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CBFC "쯼" Hangul Syllable Jjyils is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing a single block that combines the initial consonant jjy (a tense, double digraph) with the vowel i and the final consonant cluster ls (a combination of rieul and siot). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllabic blocks as single code points to simplify text processing and display. While the syllable "jjyils" is not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and productive nature of the Korean writing system, where all possible combinations of initial consonants, vowels, and final consonants are theoretically possible and thus encoded in the standard.

General Properties

Code Point U+CBFC
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jjyils
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쯰" U+CBF0 Hangul Syllable Jjyi
"ᆳ" U+11B3 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Sios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쯼
HTML Hex Encoding 쯼
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xAF 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCBFC
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CBFC
C/C++/Java Escape \ucbfc

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