U+C8A8 "좨" Hangul Syllable Jwae Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C8A8 "좨" Hangul Syllable Jwae is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the Korean sound "jwae," formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and no final consonant. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables of the modern Korean alphabet as individual characters for efficient text processing and display. In Korean, this syllable is relatively rare but can appear in words or names, such as in certain verb forms or loanword transcriptions, and its pronunciation roughly rhymes with the English "way" when spoken.

General Properties

Code Point U+C8A8
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jwae
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc
"ᅫ" U+116B Hangul Jungseong Wae

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 좨
HTML Hex Encoding 좨
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA2 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC8A8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C8A8
C/C++/Java Escape \uc8a8

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LV Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LV 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=LV
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter