U+C7A5 "장" Hangul Syllable Jang Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C7A5 "장" Hangul Syllable Jang is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (jieut), the vowel ㅏ (a), and the final consonant ㅇ (ieung). As a complete syllabic block, it represents the sound "jang" and is widely used in the Korean language, appearing in common words such as 장소 (jangso, meaning "place"), 장미 (jangmi, meaning "rose"), and the surname 장 (Jang). This syllable is part of the Hangul Syllables Unicode block, which encodes all possible syllable combinations in modern Korean for efficient text processing.

General Properties

Code Point U+C7A5
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Jang
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
"ᆼ" U+11BC Hangul Jongseong Ieung

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 장
HTML Hex Encoding 장
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9E 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC7A5
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C7A5
C/C++/Java Escape \uc7a5

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