U+C8E0 "죠" Hangul Syllable Jyo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
죠
U+C8E0 "죠" Hangul Syllable Jyo is a precomposed syllable in the Korean writing system, representing the sound "jyo" as a combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut) and the vowel "ㅛ" (yo). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block, which encodes all possible syllabic blocks formed from Korean jamo characters, and it is widely used in modern Korean text for words such as "죠" (jyo), a contracted or polite form of the verb "지요" (jiyo). Its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital representation across platforms, allowing for proper rendering and processing of Korean language content.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8E0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jyo |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc "ᅭ" U+116D Hangul Jungseong Yo |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8E0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8E0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8e0 |