U+C7A5 "장" Hangul Syllable Jang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
장
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 |