U+C8ED "죭" Hangul Syllable Jyolt Unicode Character
U+C8ED "죭" Hangul Syllable Jyolt is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul writing system of the Korean language, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), the medial vowel "ㅛ" (yo), and the final consonant "ㄼ" (rieul bieup), which together produce the phonetic value /jolt/. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations of the Korean alphabet in a single codepoint for efficient text processing. While it is a valid and orthographically correct syllable, "죭" is extremely rare in actual Korean vocabulary, and it is seldom used in modern written or spoken Korean, making it an example of a character that exists primarily to maintain the systematic completeness of the encoding rather than for common linguistic usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C8ED |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jyolt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 죭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 죭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA3 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC8ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C8ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc8ed |