U+3148 "ㅈ" Hangul Letter Cieuc Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ㅈ
U+3148 "ㅈ" Hangul Letter Cieuc is a Jamo, a component of the Korean writing system Hangul, representing the consonant sound /tɕ/ at the beginning of a syllable or /dʑ/ in voiced contexts, such as between vowels. This character, known as "jieut" in modern Korean, is used as a standalone letter in the Unicode standard under the "Hangul Compatibility Jamo" block, primarily for compatibility with older Korean character sets. Its stroke resembles a gentle curve, and it can combine vertically or horizontally with vowels and other consonants to form full Korean syllables like 자 (ja) or 저 (jeo).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+3148 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Hangul Letter Cieuc |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Hangul Letter Jieuj |
| Block | Hangul Compatibility Jamo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ㅈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ㅈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE3 0x85 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x3148 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00003148 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u3148 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Changes When NFKC Casefolded | Yes |
| NFKC Casefold | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc |
| NFKC Simple Casefold | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc |
| Script | Hangul |
| Script Extensions | Hangul |
| 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 | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |