U+C78A "잊" Hangul Syllable Ij Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
잊
U+C78A "잊" Hangul Syllable Ij is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean writing system, Hangul, representing the sound "ij" or "it" depending on context. It is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder or ng sound), the vowel ㅣ (i), and the final consonant ㅈ (j or t), with the final consonant undergoing a common phonological change in Korean where ㅈ is pronounced as a tense or unreleased t at the end of a syllable. This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which contains over 11,000 precomposed syllables to facilitate efficient text processing for Korean. It appears in words like 잊다 (itda), meaning "to forget," making it a functional and common element in written Korean.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C78A |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ij |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "이" U+C774 Hangul Syllable I "ᆽ" U+11BD Hangul Jongseong Cieuc |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 잊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 잊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC78A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C78A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc78a |