U+C79B "잛" Hangul Syllable Jalb Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C79B "잛" Hangul Syllable Jalb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul script, representing the phonetic sound "jalb" as a combination of the initial consonant letter 'ㅈ' (j), the medial vowel 'ㅏ' (a), and the final consonant 'ㄼ' (lb). This syllable is part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, which encodes the 11,172 possible logical syllable formations in Korean by prearranging leading consonants, medial vowels, and trailing consonants into a single code point for efficient text processing. In Korean writing, "잛" is a relatively rare syllable but can be encountered in specific vocabulary or literary contexts, where its pronunciation follows standard Hangul phonetics with a short, crisp "j" sound followed by the open vowel "a" and a subtle double final consonant closure.

General Properties

Code Point U+C79B
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jalb
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
"ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 잛
HTML Hex Encoding 잛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9E 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC79B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C79B
C/C++/Java Escape \uc79b

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