U+C8AE "좮" Hangul Syllable Jwaenh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C8AE "좮" Hangul Syllable Jwaenh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used to write the Korean language. It is formed by combining the initial consonant jieut (ㅈ) with the vowel wa (ㅘ) representing a "w" offglide, and the final consonant nieun (ㄴ), though its phonetic value is a more complex coda cluster indicated by the "enh" romanization. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet as individual code points, and it represents a specific yet relatively rare syllable found in certain vocabulary or technical contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C8AE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jwaenh
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
"ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 좮
HTML Hex Encoding 좮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA2 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC8AE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C8AE
C/C++/Java Escape \uc8ae

Unicode Properties

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