U+C8BD "좽" Hangul Syllable Jwaeng Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좽
U+C8BD "좽" Hangul Syllable Jwaeng is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant “ㅈ” (j), the vowel “ㅘ” (wa), and the final consonant “ㅇ” (ng) to represent the phonetic sound “jwaeng.” It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all 11,172 possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet. This particular syllable, while valid in the Hangul orthographic inventory, is relatively uncommon in everyday modern Korean vocabulary and is more likely to appear in specialized contexts such as transliterations, historical texts, or linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8BD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaeng |
| 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 "ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좽 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좽 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8BD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8BD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8bd |