U+C8BC "좼" Hangul Syllable Jwaess Unicode Character
U+C8BC "좼" Hangul Syllable Jwaess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of an initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut, sounding like "j"), a medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa, a diphthong beginning with "w" and moving to "a"), and a final consonant cluster "ㅆ" (ssang shiot, a doubled "s" sound pronounced as a tense "ss"). This specific syllable does not commonly appear in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it is a theoretical construct for encoding completeness, but it can be found in certain verb conjugations or rare lexical forms, such as in the word "좼다" (jwae-ss-da), an archaic or dialectal contraction of "좇았다" meaning "followed." When pronounced, it phonetically resembles "jwess" in English, with a tense, hissing final consonant sound distinct from plain "s."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8BC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8BC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8BC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8bc |