U+C8A0 "좠" Hangul Syllable Jwass Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좠
U+C8A0 "좠" Hangul Syllable Jwass is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the sound “jwass,” which is constructed from the initial consonant “ㅈ” (jieut), the medial vowel “ㅘ” (wa), and the final consonant “ㅆ” (ssang ssangjieut). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible precomposed syllables of the modern Korean alphabet. As a single code point, it allows for efficient text processing and rendering, though it can also be represented as a sequence of its individual jamo components. The syllable “좠” itself is used in Korean text to denote words or syllables with that specific sound, such as in certain native or borrowed vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8A0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwass |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8a0 |