U+C8D8 "죘" Hangul Syllable Joess Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+C8D8 "죘" Hangul Syllable Joess is a precomposed Hangul syllable representing the phonetic cluster "jwess" formed from the Korean initial consonant ㅈ (j), the medial vowel ㅚ (oe, here representing a w-like glide from ㅗ and ㅣ), and the final consonant cluster ㅆ (ss). This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in the Unicode standard, where it was encoded to allow efficient text representation of Korean by combining individual jamo letters into single coded syllables. As a relatively rare syllable, it appears primarily in specialized or historical Korean vocabulary, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures consistent digital rendering and interchange across modern systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+C8D8
Name
Hangul Syllable Joess
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
죘
HTML Hex Encoding
죘
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEC 0xA3 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0xC8D8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000C8D8
C/C++/Java Escape
\uc8d8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Hangul