U+C8B7 "좷" Hangul Syllable Jwaelh Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C8B7 "좷" Hangul Syllable Jwaelh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script, used in the Korean language to represent the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut, sounding like an unaspirated "j"), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae, a diphthong pronounced as a glide from "wa" to "e"), and the final consonant "ㅀ" (rieul-hieut, a compound final that produces a "l" sound followed by a soft "h" aspiration). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded for direct digital representation, allowing it to be displayed and processed in text without needing separate combination of individual jamo components.

General Properties

Code Point U+C8B7
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jwaelh
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
"ᆶ" U+11B6 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Hieuh

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 좷
HTML Hex Encoding 좷
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA2 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC8B7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C8B7
C/C++/Java Escape \uc8b7

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