U+C8AA "좪" Hangul Syllable Jwaegg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좪
U+C8AA "좪" Hangul Syllable Jwaegg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "jwaegg" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㄲ" (gg). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllables formed from the Korean alphabet in a single, precomposed form for efficient text processing and display. While this specific syllable is rarely used in contemporary Korean vocabulary, its presence in the Unicode standard ensures that any legacy or technical text requiring the exact phonetic combination "jwaegg" can be correctly represented and exchanged across digital platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8AA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaegg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "좨" U+C8A8 Hangul Syllable Jwae "ᆩ" U+11A9 Hangul Jongseong Ssangkiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8aa |