U+C8D2 "죒" Hangul Syllable Joelp Unicode Character
U+C8D2 "죒" Hangul Syllable Joelp is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "j," the medial vowel "oe" (ㅚ, pronounced like the "we" in "wet"), and the final consonant "lp" (ㄼ, representing a double final consonant pronounced as "l" before a consonant or in isolation, but often merging to a simple "l" sound in fluent speech). It belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic combinations of Korean jamo characters into single, fixed-width code points for efficient text processing. While this specific syllable is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary and is primarily a product of the Unicode encoding system rather than a commonly used word, it serves as an example of the comprehensive and systematic mapping of Korean phonology to digital text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8D2 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Joelp |
| 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 "ᆵ" U+11B5 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Phieuph |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죒 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죒 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8D2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8D2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8d2 |