U+C88C "좌" Hangul Syllable Jwa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좌
U+C88C "좌" Hangul Syllable Jwa is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound "jwa," formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j) with the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes complete syllable blocks of the Korean writing system to facilitate their use in digital text processing and display. In Korean, this character appears in common words such as "왼쪽" (oenjjok, meaning left side) and "쪽" (jjok, meaning direction or side), and it is also used in the term "좌우" (jwau, meaning left and right).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C88C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwa |
| 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 "ᅪ" U+116A Hangul Jungseong Wa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좌 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좌 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC88C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C88C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc88c |