U+C8BD "좽" Hangul Syllable Jwaeng Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter