U+CD49 "쵉" Hangul Syllable Cwaelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+CD49 "쵉" Hangul Syllable Cwaelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅊ" (ch), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄺ" (lg). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks formed by Korean jamo characters, and its canonical decomposition into its constituent jamo components (U+CC2C "ᄎ", U+315C "ᅫ", and U+11AF "ᆯ" followed by U+11A8 "ᄀ") allows for normalization and processing in text systems. The syllable "쵉" is not common in everyday Korean vocabulary but illustrates the systematic nature of Hangul's syllabic writing system, where each block combines initial, medial, and final sounds into a single visual character.

General Properties

Code Point U+CD49
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Cwaelg
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "쵀" U+CD40 Hangul Syllable Cwae
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 쵉
HTML Hex Encoding 쵉
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xB5 0x89
UTF-16 Encoding 0xCD49
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000CD49
C/C++/Java Escape \ucd49

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