U+C8B1 "좱" Hangul Syllable Jwaelg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좱
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 |