U+C89F "좟" Hangul Syllable Jwas Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좟
U+C89F "좟" Hangul Syllable Jwas is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (t), which together produce the phonetic value "jwat" as used in Standard Korean. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible precomposed syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet. While not commonly used in everyday contemporary vocabulary, it may appear in historical texts, specialized terminology, or as part of proper names, and its existence ensures accurate digital representation of written Korean without requiring dynamic composition from individual jamo characters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C89F |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwas |
| 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 "ᆺ" U+11BA Hangul Jongseong Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좟 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좟 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC89F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C89F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc89f |