U+C8DC "죜" Hangul Syllable Joek Unicode Character
U+C8DC "죜" Hangul Syllable Joek is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic sound "joek" in the Korean writing system, formed from the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), the medial vowel "ㅚ" (oe), and the final consonant "ㅋ" (kieuk). This codepoint belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables that simplify the processing and display of Hangul text by representing each syllable as a single character rather than combining individual jamo components. The syllable "죜" itself is rarely used in modern Korean, likely appearing in archaic or specialized vocabulary, but it demonstrates Unicode's comprehensive encoding of all logically possible Hangul syllable combinations following the structural rules of the Korean script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8DC |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Joek |
| 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 "ᆿ" U+11BF Hangul Jongseong Khieukh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죜 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죜 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8dc |