U+C888 "좈" Hangul Syllable Jok Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C888 "좈" Hangul Syllable Jok is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jok" as a combination of the initial consonant jieut (ㅈ), the vowel o (ㅗ), and the final consonant kieuk (ㅋ). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block (U+AC00 to U+D7AF) in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Hangul jamo. While not commonly used in everyday Korean vocabulary, it exists as a valid phonetic building block in the language and may appear in specialized contexts, such as rare or archaic words, foreign transliterations, or creative linguistic use.

General Properties

Code Point U+C888
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jok
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
"ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 좈
HTML Hex Encoding 좈
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA2 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC888
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C888
C/C++/Java Escape \uc888

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