U+C79A "잚" Hangul Syllable Jalm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C79A "잚" Hangul Syllable Jalm is a precomposed syllable in the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "Jalm." It is formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㄻ (lm), a compound final that is pronounced as a double consonant. This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible combinations of Korean letters for efficient text processing. While not a common word in modern Korean, it appears in historical texts or as a phonetic component in complex syllables.

General Properties

Code Point U+C79A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jalm
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
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 잚
HTML Hex Encoding 잚
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9E 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC79A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C79A
C/C++/Java Escape \uc79a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
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 Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter