U+C8B6 "좶" Hangul Syllable Jwaelp Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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