U+C7AD "잭" Hangul Syllable Jaeg Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
잭
U+C7AD "잭" Hangul Syllable Jaeg is a precomposed syllabic block representing the Korean syllable "jaek" (잭), which is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the vowel "ㅐ" (ae), and the final consonant "ㄱ" (g). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which systematically encodes all 11,172 possible combinations of Korean letters to facilitate digital text processing. In modern Korean, it is most commonly used as a phonetic transliteration for the English word "jack," such as in "잭" (Jack as a name) or devices like "잭" (a car jack), though it rarely appears in native Korean vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C7AD |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jaeg |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "재" U+C7AC Hangul Syllable Jae "ᆨ" U+11A8 Hangul Jongseong Kiyeok |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 잭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 잭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0x9E 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC7AD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C7AD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc7ad |