U+C806 "젆" Hangul Syllable Jeonh Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
젆
U+C806 "젆" Hangul Syllable Jeonh is a precomposed Korean syllable representing the sound "jeonh," formed from the initial consonant ㅈ (j), the vowel ㅓ (eo), and the final consonant ㄶ (nh). In modern Korean, this syllable is notably used in the word 젆다 (jeonhda), meaning "to be thin or skinny," and it appears in certain compound words or archaic expressions. As part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, it serves as a single code point that streamlines text processing by representing a complete syllable in the Korean writing system, avoiding the need to combine individual jamo characters for display.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C806 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jeonh |
| Block | Hangul Syllables |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "저" U+C800 Hangul Syllable Jeo "ᆭ" U+11AD Hangul Jongseong Nieun-Hieuh |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 젆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 젆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA0 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC806 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C806 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc806 |