U+C8DD "죝" Hangul Syllable Joet Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
죝
U+C8DD "죝" Hangul Syllable Joet is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic value "joet." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (jieut), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe), and the final consonant ㅌ (tieut), combining to create a single syllabic block. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in the Korean alphabet following the standard Hangul orthographic order. In practical use, "죽" appears in Korean text as a specific lexical element, though it is relatively rare in common vocabulary compared to more frequent syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8DD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Joet |
| 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 "ᇀ" U+11C0 Hangul Jongseong Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8DD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8DD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8dd |