U+C888 "좈" Hangul Syllable Jok Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좈
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 |