U+C8BC "" Hangul Syllable Jwaess Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans CJK Source: Browser Default

U+C8BC "" Hangul Syllable Jwaess is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic combination of an initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut, sounding like "j"), a medial vowel "ㅘ" (wa, a diphthong beginning with "w" and moving to "a"), and a final consonant cluster "ㅆ" (ssang shiot, a doubled "s" sound pronounced as a tense "ss"). This specific syllable does not commonly appear in everyday Korean vocabulary, as it is a theoretical construct for encoding completeness, but it can be found in certain verb conjugations or rare lexical forms, such as in the word "좼다" (jwae-ss-da), an archaic or dialectal contraction of "좇았다" meaning "followed." When pronounced, it phonetically resembles "jwess" in English, with a tense, hissing final consonant sound distinct from plain "s."

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
좼
HTML Hex Encoding
좼
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEC 0xA2 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding
0xC8BC
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000C8BC
C/C++/Java Escape
\uc8bc