U+C8B5 "좵" Hangul Syllable Jwaelt Unicode Character
U+C8B5 "좵" Hangul Syllable Jwaelt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean writing system, representing the sound "jwaelt" through a combination of the initial consonant jieut (ㅈ), the medial vowel wa (ㅘ), and the final consonant rieut (ㅀ) in the form of a single, unified character. This specific syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode, which encodes over 11,000 precomposed syllables that allow for efficient text processing and display of Korean script without requiring real-time composition of individual jamo characters. While the syllable is valid in the Unicode standard and can be displayed in any system that supports modern Hangul, it is a relatively rare or obsolete syllable in contemporary Korean, with limited practical usage in everyday language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8B5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaelt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좵 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좵 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8B5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8B5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8b5 |