U+C79B "잛" Hangul Syllable Jalb Unicode Character
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 |