U+C8BA "좺" Hangul Syllable Jwaebs Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좺
U+C8BA "좺" Hangul Syllable Jwaebs is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅄ" (bs), which together form the sound "jwaebs." This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible legal syllable combinations in the Korean writing system, allowing for efficient text representation and rendering in digital environments. However, as a rare or uncommon syllable, it is not frequently used in everyday Korean vocabulary, but it remains a valid and standardized character for linguistic completeness.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8BA |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaebs |
| 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 "ᆹ" U+11B9 Hangul Jongseong Pieup-Sios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좺 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좺 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8BA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8BA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8ba |