U+C89E "좞" Hangul Syllable Jwabs Unicode Character
U+C89E "좞" Hangul Syllable Jwabs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut, sounding like "j"), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa, a diphthong of "o" and "a"), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (bieup and siot, a cluster sounding like "ps"). This syllable is formed under Unicode's Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable blocks by combining initial consonants, medial vowels, and final consonants in a systematic and predictable order. In practical usage, "좞" is an extremely rare or obsolete syllable, as the final consonant cluster "ㅄ" is uncommon in modern Korean, and even among historical or specialized vocabulary, this precise combination does not appear in standard dictionaries or contemporary texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C89E |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwabs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC89E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C89E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc89e |