U+C8A8 "좨" Hangul Syllable Jwae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좨
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 |