U+C8C5 "죅" Hangul Syllable Joeg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
죅
U+C8C5 "죅" Hangul Syllable Joeg is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic syllable "Joeg" (pronounced roughly like "joe-g" with a tense consonant sound). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations formed by an initial consonant, a medial vowel, and a final consonant. Specifically, "죅" is composed of the initial consonant ᄌ (j), the medial vowel ᅬ (oe), and the final consonant ᆨ (g). While not a frequently used syllable in modern Korean text, it exists as part of the standardized set of 11,172 Hangul syllables defined by the Unicode standard to ensure comprehensive digital representation of the Korean language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8C5 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Joeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "죄" U+C8C4 Hangul Syllable Joe "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8c5 |