U+C8BF "좿" Hangul Syllable Jwaec Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
좿
U+C8BF "좿" Hangul Syllable Jwaec is a precomposed syllable in the modern Hangul script, used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅙ" (wae), and the final consonant "ㅅ" (t), resulting in the sound "jwaet". This syllable belongs to the Hangul Syllables block of Unicode (AC00–D7AF), which encodes all possible syllable blocks formed from the Korean alphabet according to the standard syllabification rules established in Unicode 2.0. While not a frequently used syllable in everyday Korean text, "좿" is a valid orthographic form included for completeness, allowing for proper rendering of Korean writing without loss of syllabic structure.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8BF |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jwaec |
| 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 "ᆾ" U+11BE Hangul Jongseong Chieuch |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 좿 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 좿 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA2 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8BF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8BF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8bf |