U+C8B6 "좶" Hangul Syllable Jwaelp Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좶
U+C8B6 "좶" Hangul Syllable Jwaelp is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, specifically representing the phonetic sound "jwaelp." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅙ (wae), and the final consonant ㄿ (lp), which is a complex final consonant cluster. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters in a single code point for efficient processing in digital text. Though exceedingly rare in contemporary Korean vocabulary, it demonstrates the systematic and combinatorial nature of the Hangul script, where syllables are built from individual jamo components.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8B6 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8B6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8B6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8b6 |