U+C796 "잖" Hangul Syllable Janh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
잖
U+C796 "잖" Hangul Syllable Janh is a precomposed syllable from the modern Korean Hangul script, representing a specific phoneme block that combines the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㄴ (n) plus ㅎ (h). As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it is encoded as a single character to facilitate efficient text processing and display for Korean language content. In usage, "잖" is primarily found as a non-morphemic syllable occurring in Korean words or phonetic contexts, rather than as a standalone meaningful word, and it may appear in transliteration or specialized linguistic transcription.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C796 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Janh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "자" U+C790 Hangul Syllable Ja "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 잖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 잖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC796 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C796 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc796 |