U+C8A2 "좢" Hangul Syllable Jwaj Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좢
U+C8A2 "좢" Hangul Syllable Jwaj is a precomposed Korean syllable that represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅈ" (j), forming the sound "jwat". It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables of the modern Korean writing system in a sequential, algorithmic order. This specific syllable is rarely used in everyday modern Korean text, as it does not correspond to a common word or morpheme in standard vocabulary. However, it exists as part of the complete set of theoretically valid Hangul syllables, allowing for accurate representation of historical, phonetic, or specialized linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8A2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaj |
| 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 "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8a2 |