U+C8B1 "좱" Hangul Syllable Jwaelg Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C8B1 "좱" Hangul Syllable Jwaelg is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, formed by combining the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㄺ (lg). This character represents a valid but extremely rare syllable in the Korean language, rarely appearing in everyday vocabulary or common text. It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean phonemes to support the complete written form of the language. As a precomposed form, it allows for efficient text processing and display in digital systems without requiring dynamic composition of individual jamo characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+C8B1
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jwaelg
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
"ᆰ" U+11B0 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 좱
HTML Hex Encoding 좱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA2 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC8B1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C8B1
C/C++/Java Escape \uc8b1

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