U+C8B9 "좹" Hangul Syllable Jwaeb Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좹
U+C8B9 "좹" Hangul Syllable Jwaeb is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jwae" (with a short "o" vowel pronunciation similar to "jweb"). It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j) with the medial vowel "ㅗ" (o) and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m), though in standard Korean orthography it is more commonly written as the syllable 좀 (jom), which serves as an adverb meaning "a little" or "somewhat." This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes the 11,172 possible precomposed syllables of the Korean alphabet, and is typically displayed as a single glyph in modern text rendering.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8B9 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaeb |
| 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 "ᆸ" U+11B8 Hangul Jongseong Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8B9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8b9 |