U+C899 "좙" Hangul Syllable Jwalt Unicode Character
U+C899 "좙" Hangul Syllable Jwalt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul syllabary used to write the Korean language, representing the phonetic sound "jwalt." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㄹㅌ" (lt), a consonant cluster specifically used in syllable-final position. This character is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which was designed to support the systematic arrangement of all possible Korean syllable blocks as defined by the Korean standard KS X 1001 and later incorporated into Unicode 2.0. While "좙" is a valid Hangul syllable, it is considered rare or nonstandard in modern Korean vocabulary, as its consonant cluster "lt" appears primarily in historical transcription or theoretical linguistic usage rather than common contemporary words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C899 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwalt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좙 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좙 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC899 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C899 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc899 |