U+C8AF "좯" Hangul Syllable Jwaed Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좯
U+C8AF "좯" Hangul Syllable Jwaed is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㅌ (t). It represents a specific phonetic unit that would be pronounced roughly as "jwaet" and is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which contains all possible syllable blocks for the Korean alphabet. In standard Korean usage, this syllable appears in words such as "좆" (a vulgar term) or as a component in certain dialects and historical texts, though it is infrequent in everyday contemporary language due to its phonetic rarity and social connotations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8AF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaed |
| 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 "ᆮ" U+11AE Hangul Jongseong Tikeut |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좯 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좯 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8AF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8AF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8af |