U+C8A1 "좡" Hangul Syllable Jwang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좡
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 |