U+C894 "좔" Hangul Syllable Jwal Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좔
U+C894 "좔" Hangul Syllable Jwal is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "jwal" (pronounced approximately like "jwahl"). This character is formed from the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul), and it belongs to the unified Hangul syllable block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables for efficient digital encoding of Korean text. In practical usage, "좔" is an uncommon syllable in standard Korean vocabulary, but it may appear in specialized terms, transliterations of foreign words, or archaic or dialectal contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C894 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwal |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "좌" U+C88C Hangul Syllable Jwa "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좔 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좔 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC894 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C894 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc894 |