U+C8CE "죎" Hangul Syllable Joelm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C8CE "죎" Hangul Syllable Joelm is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "joelm" (from the initial consonant ᄌ, medial vowel ᅬ, and final consonant ᆱ). As part of the Hangul Syllables block, it is used in written Korean to form words when the individual jamo components are combined into a single encoded character, facilitating efficient digital text processing and display. This specific syllable is relatively rare in common usage, but its inclusion in Unicode ensures that all possible syllable combinations in the Korean script are representable and accessible across platforms and fonts.

General Properties

Code Point U+C8CE
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Joelm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 죎
HTML Hex Encoding 죎
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA3 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC8CE
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C8CE
C/C++/Java Escape \uc8ce

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