U+C80B "젋" Hangul Syllable Jeolb Unicode Character
U+C80B "젋" Hangul Syllable Jeolb is a precomposed syllable in the modern Korean Hangul writing system, representing the phonetic sound "jeolb." It is formed by combining the initial consonant "ㅈ" (j), the medial vowel "ㅓ" (eo), and the final consonant cluster "ㄼ" (lb), which consists of the consonants "ㄹ" (l) and "ㅂ" (b) together in the batchim position. This character belongs to the Hangul Syllables block in Unicode, which encodes all possible syllable combinations for the Korean alphabet to facilitate efficient text processing. While "젋" is a valid syllable according to Hangul orthographic rules, it is rarely used in everyday modern Korean vocabulary, appearing more commonly in historical texts, linguistic examples, or as a component of obsolete or specialized words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+C80B |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Hangul Syllable Jeolb |
| 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 "ᆲ" U+11B2 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Pieup |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 젋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 젋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEC 0xA0 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xC80B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000C80B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uc80b |