U+C7A0 "잠" Hangul Syllable Jam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
잠
U+C7A0 "잠" Hangul Syllable Jam is a precomposed syllable in the Korean Hangul writing system, representing the sound "jam" as in "sleep" or "nap." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅏ" (a), and the final consonant "ㅁ" (m). As part of the Unicode Hangul Syllables block, this character enables the digital representation of modern Korean text, where it frequently appears in everyday vocabulary such as "잠을 자다" (to sleep).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C7A0 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jam |
| 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 "ᆷ" U+11B7 Hangul Jongseong Mieum |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 잠 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 잠 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC7A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C7A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc7a0 |