U+C808 "절" Hangul Syllable Jeol Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
절
U+C808 "절" Hangul Syllable Jeol is a precomposed syllable from the Hangul script, representing the Korean sound "jeol" which is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (jieut), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant "ㄹ" (rieul). This character is part of the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, a range that encodes all possible modern Korean syllable blocks, and it is widely used in written Korean. In the Korean language, "절" can mean a syllable, a section, a stanza, or a clause, and it also appears in various compound words and phrases, such as "절대" meaning absolute or "절망" meaning despair.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C808 |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jeol |
| 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 "ᆯ" U+11AF Hangul Jongseong Rieul |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 절 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 절 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA0 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC808 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C808 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc808 |