U+C79D "잝" Hangul Syllable Jalt Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
잝
U+C79D "잝" Hangul Syllable Jalt is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), the medial vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul) to phonetically represent the sound “jalt.” As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, this character exists within a vast set of over 11,000 precomposed syllables that encode complete syllabic blocks for the Korean language, ensuring that each unique combination of an initial, a vowel, and a final consonant has its own distinct code point. In practice, "잝" is a valid but rare syllable in Korean, occurring primarily in specialized or technical vocabulary rather than everyday common words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C79D |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jalt |
| 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 "ᆴ" U+11B4 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Thieuth |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 잝 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 잝 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC79D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C79D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc79d |