U+C8D8 "죘" Hangul Syllable Joess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
죘
U+C8D8 "죘" Hangul Syllable Joess is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic cluster "jwess" formed from the Korean initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe, here representing a w-like glide from ㅗ and ㅣ), and the final consonant cluster ㅆ (ss). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, where it was encoded to allow efficient text representation of Korean by combining individual jamo letters into single coded syllables. As a relatively rare syllable, it appears primarily in specialized or historical Korean vocabulary, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital rendering and interchange across modern systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8D8 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Joess |
| 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 "ᆻ" U+11BB Hangul Jongseong Ssangsios |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8D8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8d8 |