U+C870 "조" Hangul Syllable Jo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
조
U+C870 "조" Hangul Syllable Jo is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "jo" as in the word "조용하다" (joyonghada, meaning quiet). It is composed of the initial consonant ㅈ (j) and the vowel ㅗ (o), forming a single, fully composed character in the Unicode Standard's Hangul Syllables block. This specific block was introduced in Unicode 2.0 to provide a complete set of Korean syllables, enabling efficient text processing and display for the Korean language without needing to combine individual jamo components. The character "조" is commonly used in a wide range of Korean vocabulary, including names, places, and everyday terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C870 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc "ᅩ" U+1169 Hangul Jungseong O |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 조 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 조 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA1 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC870 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C870 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc870 |