U+C8A7 "좧" Hangul Syllable Jwah Unicode Character
U+C8A7 "좧" Hangul Syllable Jwah is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system used for the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut, sounding like /j/), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa, a compound vowel pronounced /wa/), and the final consonant "ㅎ" (hieut, sounding like /h/). As a result, this specific syllable is read as "jwah," with a clear ending aspiration. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean initial, medial, and final letters into single code points for efficient text processing. While "좧" exists in the Unicode standard, it is rarely used in everyday Korean vocabulary, making it an obscure or theoretical syllable rather than a common word.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8A7 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwah |
| 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 "ᇂ" U+11C2 Hangul Jongseong Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8a7 |