U+C8A1 "좡" Hangul Syllable Jwang Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C8A1 "좡" Hangul Syllable Jwang is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅇ" (ng). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables that enable efficient text processing and display for the Korean language. While "좡" is a valid and standard syllable, it is relatively uncommon in everyday Korean vocabulary, appearing primarily in specialized or less frequent contexts such as certain names or transliterations.

General Properties

Code Point U+C8A1
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jwang
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 좡
HTML Hex Encoding 좡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA2 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC8A1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C8A1
C/C++/Java Escape \uc8a1

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