U+C8C4 "죄" Hangul Syllable Joe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
죄
U+C8C4 "죄" Hangul Syllable Joe is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "joe" in the Korean language. It is formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (jieut), the vowel ㅚ (oe), and no final consonant, and it functions as a standard unit of written Korean. This character is used in various common words, such as "죄송하다" (joesonghada, meaning "to be sorry") and "죄" (joe, meaning "crime" or "sin"), and it appears frequently in both formal and informal Korean texts. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded for consistent digital representation across modern computing systems, enabling proper display and processing of Korean text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8C4 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Joe |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc "ᅬ" U+116C Hangul Jungseong Oe |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죄 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죄 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8C4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8C4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8c4 |