U+C89E "좞" Hangul Syllable Jwabs Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter