U+CD38 "촸" Hangul Syllable Cwass Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CD38 "촸" Hangul Syllable Cwass is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅊ" (chieut), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅆ" (ssang shiot). This specific character represents a sound that would be romanized as "cwass" in the Revised Romanization system, though it is a relatively rare syllable in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing primarily in technical or specialized contexts such as linguistic transcription or transliterations of foreign words. As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, this character is encoded to facilitate digital text representation and processing of the Korean script across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+CD38
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Cwass
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "촤" U+CD24 Hangul Syllable Cwa
"ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 촸
HTML Hex Encoding 촸
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xB4 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCD38
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CD38
C/C++/Java Escape \ucd38

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