U+C8E1 "죡" Hangul Syllable Jyog Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C8E1 "죡" Hangul Syllable Jyog is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic combination of the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (g). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character is encoded as a single codepoint to simplify text processing and display, rather than being composed from individual jamo components. It is used in written Korean, though it is a relatively rare syllable in contemporary vocabulary, appearing primarily in specific lexical contexts or transcriptions.

General Properties

Code Point U+C8E1
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jyog
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "죠" U+C8E0 Hangul Syllable Jyo
"ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 죡
HTML Hex Encoding 죡
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0xA3 0xA1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC8E1
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C8E1
C/C++/Java Escape \uc8e1

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter