U+C8B8 "좸" Hangul Syllable Jwaem Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좸
U+C8B8 "좸" Hangul Syllable Jwaem is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m), which together form the syllable "jwaem". In contemporary Korean, this character is commonly used as a colloquial and versatile adverb meaning "a little" or "please" when making requests, such as in the phrase "좀 주세요" (please give me a little). As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, it is encoded in the range U+AC00 to U+D7AF, which includes 11,172 precomposed syllables arranged systematically according to the Korean writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8B8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaem |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8B8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8B8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8b8 |