U+C878 "졸" Hangul Syllable Jol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
졸
U+C878 "졸" Hangul Syllable Jol is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), the medial vowel "ㅗ" (o), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). This syllable commonly appears in Korean vocabulary, such as in the word "졸업" (joreop) meaning graduation, or in "졸다" (jolda) meaning to doze or nod off. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character for efficient text processing, reflecting standard South Korean orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C878 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jol |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "조" U+C870 Hangul Syllable Jo "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 졸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 졸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA1 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC878 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C878 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc878 |