U+C790 "자" Hangul Syllable Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
자
U+C790 "자" Hangul Syllable Ja is a precomposed syllable representing the Korean sound "ja", formed by combining the initial consonant ᄌ (j) with the vowel ᅡ (a). It is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes modern Korean syllable blocks as single characters for efficient text processing. As a core component of the Korean writing system, this character appears frequently in everyday vocabulary, such as in 자 (ja) meaning "self" or "letter," and in 자다 (jada) meaning "to sleep."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C790 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Ja |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᄌ" U+110C Hangul Choseong Cieuc "ᅡ" U+1161 Hangul Jungseong A |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 자 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 자 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC790 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C790 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc790 |